Second Arrow Syndrome: How We Multiply our Own Suffering, and How We Might Avoid It
4 min readNov 19, 2017
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Spiritual traditions are big on fables. One of my favorites comes from the Sallatha Sutta in the Buddhist tradition.
When touched with a feeling of pain, the uninstructed run-of-the-mill person sorrows, grieves, & laments, beats his breast, becomes distraught. So he feels two pains, physical & mental. Just as if they were…