According to Osho, an awakened one feels pain and perceives suffering more clearly than ordinary people, yet does not become the sufferer. Sensations arise—like a thorn piercing—but the witnessing consciousness remains untouched, unentangled. The difference is identification: when there is no 'me' attached to the pain, sorrow does not pierce; suffering happens, but it doesn’t happen to them.
They feel pain, but by watching it without calling it “mine,” they don’t get hurt inside.