Where does the Buddha describe suffering as being like a person who is hit by two arrows?

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Probably this: Sallatha Sutta: The Arrow (SN 36.6)

The Blessed One said, "When touched with a feeling of pain, the uninstructed run-of-the-mill person sorrows, grieves, & laments, beats his breast, becomes distraught. So he feels two pains, physical & mental. Just as if they were to shoot a man with an arrow and, right afterward, were to shoot him with another one, so that he would feel the pains of two arrows; in the same way, when touched with a feeling of pain, the uninstructed run-of-the-mill person sorrows, grieves, & laments, beats his breast, becomes distraught. So he feels two pains, physical & mental.

As he is touched by that painful feeling, he is resistant. Any resistance-obsession [etc.]

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