So now then, this sensation of the happening is basic to all we want to explore.
 With that in mind, we can go on now to the question of pain and our so-called reactions
 to it.
 And once again you will see that the problem as posed immediately sets up the duality of
 the pain and the one who suffers it, the one who offers resistance.
 And therefore, reasoning from that, you can quite easily see that a great deal of the
 energy of pain is derived from the resistance offered to it.
 And that resistance takes very many forms, not only of attempts to get away from a pain
 which is present.
 Let's suppose you try to run away from a migraine headache.
 As you carry it with you, you can't get away from it and it seems to be absolutely in the
 middle of everything that you are.
 So that however much you thresh and resist, the pain goes with the threshing.
 Other forms of pain are problematic to a large extent because of our prior anxiety about
 them and because of the valuations that we put on them.
 And we may as well start from that point.
 And what we very largely dislike about people in pain is the noise they make.
 When I challenged R.H. Blythe and said, "You're a vegetarian, but don't you realize that plants
 have feelings?"
 He said, "Yes, I do, but they don't scream so loudly."
 And so, say, in a hospital or any place like that, it is taboo to scream because you must
 understand that hospitals and any institution of that kind is run for the convenience of
 the staff.
 All institutions are.
 And so, everything is done in such a way as to interiorize, localize pain.
 Of course, in a way that makes it worse.
 So we have a big, big social problem, fundamental, right from the beginning, about our reaction
 to anything painful.
 And these are very odd things.
 Let's take, for example, when a child has eaten something that doesn't agree with it
 and it vomits.
 Now you well know that when you've got a bad stomach, that vomiting is a very pleasant
 release from that.
 But because when mama sees the vomit, or somebody else does, they say, "Ugh," you are taught
 that doing it is socially unacceptable, and therefore people suppress vomiting.
 And learn from their parents that it's nasty, just as they learn that excrement is nasty,
 and just as they learn to worry about disease and death.
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