there is a difference between pain and suffering you can feel intensely negative sensory experience and you can you can feel intensely negative emotions even you can feel anger and depression and sadness and if you can be tend to simply be aware of those sensations or those moods or emotions if you can recognize that consciousness is this the prior condition in which all of those things are appearing and you're you are simply that which is aware of these changing phenomenon if you can become interested in the character of a mood like sadness or a pain in the knee it's actually possible to experience these states with total equanimity