
The Fires of Loss
Tara Brach
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Chronic Sickness - The Second Arrow of Blame
When physical pain arises, we immediately term it pain. We leave this unpleasant constellation of sensations and go into thoughts about the future that usually are telling us bad things are going to happen. So i'm just trying to give you a sense of in addition to unpleasantness, we poliferate. There's a chain reaction. And this is what the buddha described as the creation of trance. Now, how does that actually relate to chronic illness? Let's just look at the kind of control and reactivity that kicks in with chronic sickness.
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