Q2-19840428-Larry_Rosenberg-UNK-learning_how_to_live_part_i-1505 Leandra Tejedor (1)

Talk: 19840428-Larry_Rosenberg-UNK-learning_how_to_live_part_i-1505.json Start_time: 0049:01 Display_question: Is relating to pain, as if it was a friend, a helpful strategy? Keyword_search: pain, meditation, focusing, Western philosophy, religion, doubt, practice, tradition, energy, Buddhist Question_content: Questioner: Well, I've been learning about pain. I have a pain in my back. And this last meditation, I began to relate to it as a friend, because it was really an aid in focusing, which gave it a whole new twist. Larry: Do you want us to intensify that pain a little bit more? Questioner: It was only momentary. Larry: Right. Short lived friendship. Questioner: At least my mind wasn't one. Larry: Yes, okay. But you were able to… in other words, the pain was there, and you were able to see, not make it a totally black, and white, kind of thing. Pain-bad, pleasure-good. Questioner: Some of it was a strategy. If I call it a friend, maybe it will go away. Larry: Right. End_time: 00:49:55