its late and about pain

Its late and I am thinking about pain...Physical pain has some important functions in our life. Pain causes us to react to situation that will harm our bodies like fire and hot surfaces. Its our inbuilt reflex that in created for our survival. That's one dimension. That is physical pain.

Emotional pain? Hmmmm... That's on a whole new plane. Emotional pain almost always is a necessary by product of attachment and expectation. Honestly if we have no attachment and no expectation haven't we eliminated more then 90% of the emotional pain in our lives? When was the last time you felt emotional pain? Your daughter or son letting you down , your lover, husband, parent...Why? because you EXPECTED him or her to behave in a different way.expectations. Pain because you expected something and did not get it? Pain because you love someone and they betrayed you, peel everything away and it actually boils down to your attachment to that person/situation.But our ego blinds us to that.

The fact is that we are not prepared to peel away the layers. Maybe because we know that when we challenge our parameters we may have nothing to live for???