Wiser responses to pleasure and pain
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A wiser response to pleasure
Sensing a feeling of pleasure, he senses it disjoined from it. Sensing a feeling of pain, he senses it disjoined from it. Sensing a feeling of neither-pleasure-nor-pain, he senses it disjoined from it. This is called a well-instructed disciple of the noble ones disjoined from birth, aging, and death; from sorrows, lamentations, pains, distresses, and despairs. He is disjoined, I tell you, from suffering and stress.
Whatever we experience, whether pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral, we relate to in this non-attached way. We stand back from the experience rather than identifying with it. And we don’t allow it to lead to a proliferation of painful thoughts and feelings.
We get shot by the arrow, but we don’t shoot ourselves with a second arrow in response.
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