Unaffected

No pain whether physical or emotional can ever affect the wide-open relaxed nature of innate clarity. Because every appearance is nothing but clarity how could clarity affect clarity? When you relax and really allow everything to be just as it is then each description, each story, each elaboration is also seen to be nothing but clarity. Wherever you turn, whatever you are doing or thinking, that is where you will find clarity. Do yourself a favour, keep it simple, recognise the way things already are, short moment by short moment.