http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20090802x1.html
The link above is to an article in the Japan Times that talks about a dissillusioned Buddhist monk who resigned and became a Doctor. Yet even as a Doctor he has no answers to the hard questions in life. The quote below is from page two where he deals with the death of one of his patients dying. I found the article and interesting insight into the thinking of the Japanese and the Buddhist religion in Japan.
"When he asked me, "How long will this pain last?" I couldn't tell him how long. Neither did I feel it was right to say, "You're going to die soon, so that's when you will stop feeling this pain." And he knew that himself. When he asked me why, he was asking something else. He was asking me about the pain of existence, and that is a question with no answer. Maybe he was looking for something spiritual, and all I could do was be with him."
I am no expert on pain and I am not adequately going to deal with the subject of Pain in its existential philosophy but I just had the thought...
God created pain as the megaphone of our existence as CS Lewis put it. When we try to create the illusion of reality as not being real then it is pain that snaps us back to reality and we say, "Yup, I'm alive alright." But it should be also that which drives us to the creator of our existence. He is the only one who will deliver us from much pain in death. Jesus promises paradise and eternal life a new body with no more suffering. Man rejecting Jesus will spend eternity in pain gnashing teeth at the realization that they had the choice of a better eternal existence.
Choose this day whom you will serve. As for me and my house we will serve the Lord.
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