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Buddhism and pain management
I was once on a vacation to Pakistan, at that time i was i had been a buddhist for a few years, with on off meditation and more or less disciplin, and as i was young(still am, 21 now 
) i was experimenting with alot of things, among them drugs, at one point of my 6-7 month vacation, i decided id dabble a little bit with opium, at that point i had tried many kinds of drugs, and i had always had the principle that i would never let myself become fully addicted, as in not being able to let it go when i chose, that worked pretty well, although i must admit that opium was the drug i had taken the longest time, id take maybe a ricekernel size morning and evening
then came the time for me to return to Denmark, with about a month left, and i decided to go cold turkey, better to be free of the withdrawals before coming home i thought
the next few weeks were quiet unpleasant, id have a very heavy body, id have pains all over, id be cold and hot, and my blanket would feel like it was crushing me all the nights i would be kept sleepless by these withdrawals, which i rationed was the universe balancing itself cuz id felt twice as good as a person normally wood while in my high all day...
Some nights i would walk around annoyed, some nights, id have more awareness of my discomfort, and i remember a buddhist quote that said '' this too will pass'' this kind of thoughts along with mantras and chanting buddho till i would be better at actually looking at the discomfort and pain, instead of wishing it not to be there, helped alot and sometimes it would be as if the pain would be totally gone after a while of observing it
this experience showed me first hand that buddhism can practically '' end '' suffering
so to anyone out there suffering, u can be free of it :
) i was experimenting with alot of things, among them drugs, at one point of my 6-7 month vacation, i decided id dabble a little bit with opium, at that point i had tried many kinds of drugs, and i had always had the principle that i would never let myself become fully addicted, as in not being able to let it go when i chose, that worked pretty well, although i must admit that opium was the drug i had taken the longest time, id take maybe a ricekernel size morning and eveningthen came the time for me to return to Denmark, with about a month left, and i decided to go cold turkey, better to be free of the withdrawals before coming home i thought
the next few weeks were quiet unpleasant, id have a very heavy body, id have pains all over, id be cold and hot, and my blanket would feel like it was crushing me all the nights i would be kept sleepless by these withdrawals, which i rationed was the universe balancing itself cuz id felt twice as good as a person normally wood while in my high all day...
Some nights i would walk around annoyed, some nights, id have more awareness of my discomfort, and i remember a buddhist quote that said '' this too will pass'' this kind of thoughts along with mantras and chanting buddho till i would be better at actually looking at the discomfort and pain, instead of wishing it not to be there, helped alot and sometimes it would be as if the pain would be totally gone after a while of observing it
this experience showed me first hand that buddhism can practically '' end '' suffering
so to anyone out there suffering, u can be free of it :
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