Tolerance of Pain

Wel, first of all, just avoiding pleasure forces us to tolerate pain in the ways that we've talked about. We're not distracting ourselves from the suffering of life by checking out with a drug or behavior. And also then intentionally inviting pain into our lives, right with exercise or iced, cold water baths? Wel, i feel like what your question is getting at is, well, but if i do something painful in the service of some greater good, does that change the pain or the experience somehow? And i think absolutely the answer is yes.