The difference between pain and suffering

There is a Buddhist teaching that says that when you get hurt, say, by an arrow, that is pain. The arrow hitting your arm, it hurts. Pain. However, there is a second arrow, which is your reaction to the arrow, the getting angry, the planning revenge, that is beyond pain, that is suffering.

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Sri Lanka postage stamp (2011) on Lumbini, the birth place of the Buddha in India. Image courtesy: https://www.buddhiststamp.com/