Re: alcohol only thing to take away my pain Dharma Bum: Running helped me! Lost a lot of weight, too, although an old case of plantar fasciitis is coming back again, damnit! Here's my bit of Buddhist philosophy for the day: don't avoid pain and don't numb it. In fact, one Buddhist monk described that people who are going through pain and fear in their lives should "lean into the points." That was the best bit of wisdom I ever received and I have spent the last 5.5 months leaning into the points, hard. It sucks and it hurts, but better to open up all of the wounds as wide as possible and get them cleaned out now than pretending they aren't there and having infections that last for the rest of your life. You're in a unique position to learn something about yourself and do things differently the next go around. The only way you can take anything at all from all of this is to feel every bump in the road, every high, every low, and ride it out. There are no answers at the bottom of a bottle.
Re: alcohol only thing to take away my pain xkaree: alcohol? =) i use a knife...funny thing..i dont feel it..
