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Do the Enlightened Feel Pain
« Thread Started on Mar 23, 2004, 2:01pm »
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Some time ago on the AOL boards there was the discussion as to whether or not a Buddha suffers, I came across this passage today :

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[font=georgia]The king said: ‘He who will not be reborn [one who is enlightened], Nâgasena does he still feel any painful sensation?’

The Elder replied: ‘Some he feels and some not.’<br>
‘Which are they?’<br>
‘He may feel bodily pain, O king; but mental pain he would not’<br>
‘How would that be so?’<br>
‘Because the causes, proximate or remote, of bodily pain still continue, he would be liable to it. But the causes, proximate or remote, of mental agony having ceased, he could not feel it. For it has been said by the Blessed One: “One kind of pain he suffers, bodily pain: but not mental.”’

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Re: Do the Enlightened Feel Pain
« Reply #1 on May 2, 2005, 6:21pm »
the pain is noticed as a bodily sensation. to say that a buddhist ceases to have a functional nervous system would be remiss. however, the bodily sensation is duely noted and not made to affect the buddhist in the same way.

living with the pain is living in the moment. living in the moment is the end of suffering. thus, the buddhist feels the pain, but he is not suffering. see the difference?
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