Buddhism speaks of the pain and ‘ the second arrow.’ The first arrow is pain itself. That is inevitable. The second arrow is how we react to it. When we add aversion, craving, resistance, worry and obsessive thinking, we add immeasurably to our experience.
The writer said he had to keep reminding himself that the second arrow is optional.
There are a lot of different arrows that cause a lot of different pain, and this applies to them all.
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