Pain and suffering seem to be connected, but mindfulness practice can see the differences to separate them. Pain is always an alerting factor that something is severely wrong. Acknowledging alerting pain, we should act quickly to repair the cause. However, pain is usually followed by a mental experience of suffering, the thing that can be separated and controlled. On the other hand, when we cannot located and repair the cause, over time a trauma suffering grows, exacerbating and echoing pain. In effect, the victim is imprisoned by the unrequited end to the cycle of suffering. The former can be efficiently dealt with, but the latter is more stubbornly adhered. Over lifetimes, we become habituated to long-term suffering, becoming generalized non specific suffering. Eventually, we become so sensitized by mental suffering that our pain/suffering threshold is lowered and we suffer easily. Buddhism teaches the reproducible effect of releasing that suffering. ~Domo Geshe Rinpoche ~~~ "Sc