Vividly, I remember there was an article written by a Taiwanese writer. She classified pain into various types, small, medium, big, and super pain, and then short, middle, long, and pain as numb, etc. She was suffering from "glass bones" since her teenage, and she has been living with pain since then, until the day she died by the sixties. The news (or merely rumor) said that she was actually killed by her Indonesian maid, who was so fed up taken care of her and kicked her on her chest without knowing this could actually kill her, and she did. Even at this page of her life, she showed her forgiveness and told the paramedics who was sending her to the hospital that it was her that fell down and trying to forgive her Indonesian maid who actually was emotionally exhausted and kicked her by accident. She wrote every word with much more effort that us, due to her breathing issue and her body conditions, but she continue to write and her publications and books, and more important her spirit had encouraged a few generations and many people around the world. Reading her articles are such an enjoyment!
What is the meaning of pain and suffering? Many religions offered their reasoning. Some worth digging deeper into it and some, in my point of view, just taken as par value. To me, it's more of a relativity issue. If we may pause and think for a moment, most of our life time, if you are willing to think in this direction, are filled with happy or at least "pain free" time. Okay, we may have a flu occasionally, and we had a headache. We may even over-drunk ourselves and have a hang-over. but in general, most days we are in a state of "pain-free" condition. At such a state, you would never asked what is the meaning of pain and suffering. Only when you are suffering from it, like me now, that you may want to dig deeper into it and trying to find meaning of what you are suffering from, or if at all, if there are anything inside them. Honestly, I don't have a clear answer now, and I am still eagerly looking into it.
Share with me if you have any good thoughts on this.
This beautiful flowers are provided by Sheena, delivered to my house by David.
