Suffering (cf. Pain)​​​

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1. A subcategory of painience arising not from reality itself but from resistance — whether automatic or deliberate — to what is, or from belief in what is not true.

2. Aversive experience that is generated or amplified by the mind's opposition to present reality, rather than by reality's direct impact.

3. The maladaptive form of painience, whose intensity is disproportionate to circumstances and whose dissolution comes through releasing resistance or correcting false belief rather than changing external conditions.

4. Pain that persists or intensifies in the absence of any addressable external cause, sustained instead by an internal stance of non-acceptance toward what is.

5. The form of painience that can be present even when circumstances are benign, conjured entirely by resistance to reality or investment in a false belief about what should or should not be.

6. Aversive experience whose source is the gap between reality as it is and the mind's demand that it be otherwise.

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See Pleasure And Panience: The Distinctions