Does awareness experience pain?
No.
Open to any bodily sensation. Notice that it’s just a pulsation of energy.
A thought, a superimposition, might arise and label the sensation “pain.”
Stay only with the sensation. Does it have any label “pain” immediately or directly attached to it?
No.
So, pain is nothing but a thought and, as such, does not appear unless nama or the naming function of pain appears. The sensation, without the label, is just vibrating energy.
Now, who is aware of this sensation?
Awareness is aware of this sensation.
When you stay only with the experience of awareness, do you find that awareness, itself, is sensing?
No.
Do you find that awareness, itself, is “in pain”?
No.
Be this knowingly. Awareness–your essential being–experiences no pain.
What is this like?