Get the feeling back

 

Get the feeling back

 

The wise man Agudengba and the hunter Chu Sanxing were drinking milk and bitter tea in a teahouse in Myanmar. The topic of their chat turned to the discussion of "pain and happiness".

Chu Sanxing said to Agudengba:

When I was in India I met a doctor, Paul Brandi, a missionary doctor who practiced medicine in the Madras mission. He told me something. There was a young man named Sadan who contracted leprosy at an early age. I accidentally became a close friend with him. At that time, in order to treat him, I brought Sadan to my clinic. I took good care of him. One summer a few years later, Sadan told me that he wanted to go home for a weekend, both to visit his family and to see the possibility of living independently on his own.

Brandy is a doctor. He told me that due to leprosy, Sadan's nerve endings are insensitive to external stimulation and cannot feel pain. Before Sadan left, Dr. Brandi warned him to be extra careful about the dangers in a strange environment. After everything was ready, Sadan boarded the train bound for Madras.

Chu Sanxing then told Agudengba what happened after Sadan returned to his hometown:

It was a Saturday night. After having a good time with relatives and friends, Sadan returned to the room where he had lived, fell down on the straw bed, and fell asleep deeply. The next morning, when Sadan woke up, the first thing he did was to follow Dr. Brandy's reminder and carefully check his whole body. Dr. Brandi once told him that leprosy patients need to check themselves anytime and anywhere because they can never feel pain. This is the only way they can judge danger and protect themselves, so Sadan has developed this habit over the years.

However, the result of Sadan's self-examination surprised him: Sadan found that the index finger of his left hand was bloody and bloody. It turned out that the room was in disrepair, and while he was sleeping, a mouse got in through the hole in the wall and ate Sadan's fingers as a midnight snack. But since he couldn't feel pain, Sadan couldn't resist even a small mouse.

On Sunday night, Sadan didn't dare to take it lightly. He sat cross-legged on the straw bed all night, with his back against the wall, reading by the light of the oil lamp. As dawn broke, his eyelids grew heavier and heavier. Finally unable to resist the fatigue any longer, Sadan tilted his head and fell asleep. A few hours later, Sadan was awakened by the screams of his family. It turned out that Sadan's right hand had slipped into the bowl of lamp oil, and the flesh on the back of his hand was burnt. Fortunately, there was not much oil left in the oil lamp and he was discovered by his family in time, otherwise he himself would have been killed in the flames. Seeing all this, Sadan said goodbye to his relatives in frustration and left his hometown of Madras with his hands wrapped in bandages.

Chu Sanxing said to Agudengba:

Later, Dr. Brandi said to me: After Sadan came back, I cleaned his wounds. But we couldn't help crying. Dr. Brandy was clearly in pain. I thought at first that maybe he was suffering from his failure to cure Sadan's leprosy. But Dr. Brandi said something I will never forget: "Because of the lack of the ability to feel pain, Sadan was deprived of the freedom he most desired. When you are struggling in pain and complaining about the injustice of God, I hope you will think of it. Sadan’s Story.”

Agudengba pointed to the milk bitter tea on the table and said:

Dr. Brandy is right. Life is like this cup of milk and bitter tea, a mixed drink of sweetness and bitterness, and a community of pain and happiness. Leprosy patients cannot feel pain. If they lose the feeling of pain, they will also lose the feeling of happiness.

Agudenba said:

Feeling is a general psychological term for various psychological experiences and reactions, such as fear, anger, sarcasm and pity, jealousy, fear, happiness and love. Feeling is the human brain's understanding of the individual attributes of things, which is caused by a stimulus directly acting on a certain sense organ. Feelings are caused by objects acting on sensory organs. As early as two thousand years ago, some people divided human feelings into five basic senses, namely vision, hearing, touch, smell and taste. In fact, it also includes skin sensation. In fact, human feelings are much more than these, and also include feelings of hunger, fullness, thirst, suffocation, nausea, urge to defecate, sex, and pain.

Feeling is the basis of all higher-level and more complex psychological phenomena and the basis of all human psychological phenomena. Complex cognitive activities such as human perception, memory, and thinking must rely on the original data provided by the senses. People's emotional experience must also rely on people's feelings about the environment and the internal state of the body. Therefore, without feelings, all more complex and advanced psychological phenomena cannot arise. Dictators think they have power over the world, but in fact they live in fear every day; ignorant people think they are impoverished, which is a sin committed by their ancestors during their lifetime. Different classes have different feelings, and different feelings divide human beings into different levels.

Agudengba fell into deep thought and sang a song "Getting Back the Feeling":

 

An object always has its properties,

light, sound, temperature, smell,

There is not a single sense organ in the human body;

Be able to recognize all these attributes.

We can only rely on various sense organs,

Reflect these attributes of the object respectively,

Each organ reflects different feelings,

They also respond to external stimuli.

As our eyes see light,

Our ears can hear sounds,

Our noses smell different smells,

The tongue allows us to feel the taste,

 

Feelings, like all psychological phenomena,

It feels simple but very important,

Feelings provide information about the internal and external environment,

Allow us to recognize external objects,

Able to understand various properties of things,

Make sure you get the necessary correct information.

If there is no pain, there is no danger.

Without a yardstick for advancement and retreat, it is difficult to judge right from wrong.

If you can't protect yourself, you will be frightened.

Once you get your feelings back, you will find joy in suffering.

Abandon the pain and feel free and transcendent,

After going through hardships and tests, you know how to enjoy yourself.