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> 1. The goal is to end suffering, so if a practice is making you suffer stop doing it. Cool, so I just walk away from anything causing me stress? *leaves wife

• npteljes 4y ago
  Imagine that while studying Buddhism a new way appears: detaching pain and suffering. So for you to stop suffering, you won't need to walk away.
  • wnolens 4y ago
    Detachment from feeling pain? I believe this is a common symptom of PTSD. Another hot tip from Buddhism in this thread.
    • blep_ 4y ago
      And a few other mental disorders, yeah. "Depersonalization" is the relevant search term. This was the real "sudden insight" I got from trying meditation off and on for a few years: that the complete detachment they try to achieve and the complete detachment I've been feeling for most of my life are the same thing. The only difference is they did it on purpose. I have been enlightened, and it is the biggest source of suffering in my life.
    • npteljes 4y ago
      Not detachment from pain, you misunderstand. You will feel all the pain just the same. It's just that pain won't imply the same amount of suffering, as you experienced before. In this context, pain is what you feel, suffering is what you make of it. What you are reminded of, regarding ptsd and detachment, is called dissociation (in psychology). It's an unhealthy, but working, coping mechanism for something that a mind decides it cannot face. A major difference with the detachment I'm trying to explain is that the Buddhist / stoic practice is conscious, but dissociation is unconscious.