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On Pain

and the desire for a more gentle teacher

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Jen Knox
Feb 10, 2024
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After the Latin word poena, which means punishment, pain is something that upends our experience and changes how we encounter time. It arrives in all our lives and all forms. And to think that others do not feel it is wrong.

But what does pain offer us, if anything?

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I wanted to broach this subject in response to a comment on another p…

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