I have been exerting myself for about 2 weeks, and the body is really in pain from the exertion.
During meditation/exertion one morning, I recall a student who before or during every class, would complain about having pain.
New pain every week :
If not head pain, will be back pain, knee pain, chest pain, arm pain, hip pain etc etc .........
Sometimes 2 or 3 pains at the same time.
The class would always laugh and tease her about it.
Thinking about it during the meditation/exertion,
I suddenly realised she's so right!
It's exactly what The Buddha said -
"The body is great pain. Many pains."
She's experiencing/feeling a Truth which she did not realised,
And which we all missed and can't see
And that is,
The Body is Pain.
'This body was many pains, many drawbacks.
In this body many kinds of disease arise, such as:
Seeing-diseases, hearing-diseases, nose-diseases, tongue-diseases, body-diseases, head-diseases, ear-diseases, mouth-diseases, teeth-diseases, cough, asthma, catarrh, fever, aging, stomach-ache, fainting, dysentery, grippe, cholera, leprosy, boils, ringworm, tuberculosis, epilepsy, skin-disease, itch, scab, psoriasis, scabies, jaundice, diabetes, hemorrhoids, fistulas, ulcers; diseases arising from bile, from phlegm, from the wind-property, from combinations of bodily humors, from changes in the weather, from uneven care of the body, from attacks, from the result of kamma; cold, heat, hunger, thirst, defecation, urination.'. — AN 10.60
- The Buddha, Anguttara Nikaya 10:60
"Behold this beautiful body -
A painted image
A mass of heaped up sores,
Infirm, full of hankering -
Of which nothing is lasting, permanent or stable.
Fully worn out is this body,
A nest of diseases, and fragile.
This foul mass breaks up;
Truly, life ends in DEATH."
- The Buddha, Dhammapada verse 147, 148
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"The First Noble Truth - There is Suffering."
- The Buddha
