The Instinctive Response of Human Beings to Pain

The mind surprisingly needs equanimity when it meets pleasant situations. On the last day of her winter months spent in France, Seamal and I drove to a ski resort two hours from where we live. We had enjoyed seeing the snow on the peaks of the Pyrenees from our deck but this was the first time up close. The resort was full of Christmas holiday skiers. It would be just such fun to put on the skis again,. she thought. Look, though, this is so easy. She looked shorter and plumper, definitely less glamorous than he had imagined. And then she noticed two women sitting at the table next to ours wearing brightly colored, warm, non