Friends:
The
ability to Feel Pain ceases in the 1st Jhâna!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Here, Bhikkhus, while a Bhikkhu is dwelling diligent,
enthusiastic, & resolute, there arises in him the
ability to feel pain. He understands thus: There has arisen
in me an ability to feel pain. That has a cause, a source, a
causal condition. It is impossible for that ability to feel
pain to arise without a cause, without a source, without a
condition.
He thereby understands the ability to feel pain; he
understands the causal origin of the ability to feel pain;
he also understands the very ceasing of the ability to feel
pain; & he understands when the ability to feel pain ceases
without any remaining trace...
And where, Bhikkhus & Friends
does the arisen ability to feel pain cease without remains?
Here, Bhikkhus, aloof & above of any lust, quite secluded
from any sense desire, thus protected from every
disadvantageous mental state, one enters & dwells in the 1st
Jhāna mental absorption; full of joy & pleasure born of
solitude, joined & fused with single-pointed directed
thought & sustained thinking....
It is right there that the arisen
ability to feel pain ceases without
remainder. This, friends, is thus a Bhikkhu who has
understood the
ceasing of the ability to feel pain! He directs his mind
accordingly!
More on ending Pain:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ending_Physical_Pain.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Ending_Pain_Itself.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Craving_is_Pain.htm