Kama tanha is the craving for sense pleasure. 🙏

 Kama tanha is the craving for sense pleasure. 🙏

Around the body there is a lot of kama tanha. We like comfort in this body, we don't like arthritis or pain. 

Yet one of the lessons in this life, for some seemingly cruel reason, is that we need to be witness to bodily pain. 

That is part of life.

So, on the social level, we deal with the pain. We find Chinese herbs or get the acupuncturist to poke us, whatever we have faith in, we work on that level.

But, on the Dhamma level, we reflect there is sickness. Why is there sickness ? Because there is birth. 

That is just the way it is, like it or not. So sickness is something which needs to be learned about as is pain.

So there is pain and there is craving for comfort. That is a basic, fundamental instinct which needs to be understood.

Now if one can understand the craving for non-pain and be at peace with pain then one obviously has done oneself a great service.

So try to use the feeling of pain to examine craving, to understand the wanting and see the end of wanting.

The same holds true for the emotions and the way sense consciousness works.

~Ajahn Viradhammo