As for 'avoiding pain', I don't think that is mentioned in Castaneda's writings. At one point don Juan tells Carlos that 'pain and hunger are just thoughts, they are just thoughts for me now. I have accomplished that.' In that passage he is referencing turning off the internal dialogue or our ability to stop talking to ourselves.

I added a box on my prismagems.com/castaneda page where you can search the whole file for key words or phrases. I just did that for "pain" and it returned this:

Carlos Castaneda Don Juan Teachings: A Separate Reality

www.prismagems.com › castaneda › donjuan2

... pain. To be hungry or to be in pain means that the man has abandoned himself and is no longer a warrior; and the forces of his hunger and pain will destroy him.

Carlos Castaneda Don Juan Teachings: The Power of Silence

www.prismagems.com › castaneda › donjuan8

Death is painful only when it happens in one's bed, in sickness. In a fight for your life, you feel no pain. If you feel anything, it's exultation. One of ...

Carlos Castaneda's The Active Side of Infinity - Prismagems

www.prismagems.com › castaneda › donjuan12

A warrior-traveler finds that to return to the world of disorder, compulsion, noise, and pain is a most unappealing affair. You must know that your decision ...

Carlos Castaneda Don Juan Teachings: Journey to Ixtlan

www.prismagems.com › castaneda › donjuan3

If he succeeds in his hunting he can be a man of knowledge. You are a man and like any man you deserve everything that is a man's lot--joy, pain, sadness and ...

Carlos Castaneda Don Juan Teachings: Tales of Power - Prismagems

www.prismagems.com › castaneda › donjuan4

A warrior acknowledges his pain but he doesn't indulge in it. Thus the mood of a warrior who enters into the unknown is not one of sadness; on the contrary ...

Carlos Castaneda's Don Juan's Teachings - Prismagems

prismagems.com › castaneda › Carlos_Castaneda_Don_Juan

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