Practices as preliminary to meditation

[SarathW]

Please read the attached in regard to pain management as per Buddhist doctrine:

The Blessed One said, “When touched with a feeling of pain, the
uninstructed run-of-the-mill person sorrows, grieves, & laments, beats his
breast, becomes distraught. So he feels two pains, physical & mental. Just as if
they were to shoot a man with an arrow and, right afterward, were to shoot him
with another one, so that he would feel the pains of two arrows. In the same
way, when touched with a feeling of pain, the uninstructed run-of-the-mill
person sorrows, grieves, & laments, beats his breast, becomes distraught. So
he feels two pains, physical & mental.

“Now, the well-instructed disciple of the noble ones, when touched with
a feeling of pain, does not sorrow, grieve, or lament, does not beat his breast
or become distraught. So he feels one pain: physical, but not mental. Just as if
they were to shoot a man with an arrow and, right afterward, did not shoot him
with another one, so that he would feel the pain of only one arrow. In the same
way, when touched with a feeling of pain, the well-instructed disciple of the
noble ones does not sorrow, grieve, or lament, does not beat his breast or
become distraught. He feels one pain: physical, but not mental.

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