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Necessary Pain, Unnecessary Suffering

Name: Necessary Pain, Unnecessary Suffering
Uploaded: 2025-08-13T17:16:50.389Z
Duration: 17 min 36 s
Channel: Gangaji

by Gangaji

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4.8

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talks

Activity

Meditation

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Everyone

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269

“If you stop thinking about how to get out of the body that may be painful or how to keep the body that is pain-free, you get to experience the truth.” Physical pain is an essential aspect of life that serves the survival and well-being of the body, but we can easily turn the necessary pain that alerts us to injury and illness into unnecessary suffering. What is the difference between pain and suffering? What can physical pain reveal to us when we meet it directly?

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