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Meditation - Acceptance
Painful feelings are actually a wonderful object of meditation, precisely because they're so intense. When you have a strong pain, your mind doesn't wander very much. It's right there, it can be very highly concentrated. We can get enlightened with pain as the object. But what it takes is that softening into it, being very accepting. If fear is not helpful and self-pity is not helpful, what is?