Can One End The Addiction To Thoughts

**Note: Truth does not always sound pleasant. If the mind is not really peaceful now, it might not be a perfect moment to listen to this podcast, one has to be aware of the emotions or reactions that can block one from listenING ATTENTIVELY and with HUMILITY. This talk is a meditation practice. What one needs to do is listen attentively, without getting stuck in words, examine the mind in silence, not agree or disagree, just look at the mind as it is. Doing so is already part of true meditation.

Transcript

The mind makes such a huge mistake.

The mind finds it's so convenient to derive pleasure from thoughts.

And the mind keeps enhancing that habit,

Creating the addiction,

The disorder.

And the thoughts can also bring about the bad things,

So to speak.

So the mind begins to suffer.

The life is miserable.

And in response to this,

What is really happening,

Most people are craving for more pleasure to escape from the issues.

That very escape further enhances this loop,

This addiction,

Driving the mind crazy.

If one keeps doing so,

As one becomes older,

Life is inevitably a mess.

Because the mind is always escaping,

Why more pleasure,

And more issues are waiting for one.

Can one see this clearly in one's life,

Objectively?

Being objective means that there's no judgment,

There's no condemnation,

No justification.

Just see what is really happening without any reactions.

Else,

The reaction only pushes the mind to seek more pleasure.

It is a vicious loop until the mind sees everything objectively without this reaction.

By holding,

Not yielding to these reactions.

So to end suffering,

Not to seek more pleasure,

Which only enhances this issue.

But to really end suffering,

Can one end the addiction to thoughts?

The very same addiction to sugars,

To alcohol,

To smoke.

Can one end the addiction to thoughts?

Yes,

One can,

Right?

To end this addiction,

One must be really serious about it.

One must be very careful,

Very alert for all the thought activities.

One must give up this seeking pleasure,

Which means that one must hold,

Never seek.

When the mind is seeking,

The mind can't really observe the movement of thoughts.

But when the mind really holds and stops seeking,

And the mind begins to understand,

Because this whole dynamics of the thoughts reveals to one naturally,

The true meditation starts.