Seeking Pleasure Brings 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

Thoughts are very convenient,

Isn't it?

They are so reachable.

They can be evoked,

Triggered immediately.

What is the thoughts of the thoughts?

We rarely ask these questions in our life.

When life is conditioned to thoughts,

We don't ask,

We don't examine it at all.

Unless we are aware of the issues of thoughts,

We begin to inquire,

To ask carefully,

What is the source of the thoughts?

Isn't it because memory,

Thoughts are the response to the memory.

We remember things and we use thoughts to co-opt that memory into the consciousness.

So thoughts are very reachable,

Very convenient.

We can replay the thoughts as we want.

We can replay some nice images and nice memories in the past to bring this sensation again by thoughts.

You see these convenience,

Very convenient,

Isn't it?

I can use thoughts to bring about the good sensations and look around this world,

Everyone is doing so.

We can use two words to express it,

Seeking pleasure.

We try to replay the thoughts time and time again to trigger the beautiful thoughts,

Quoted beautiful thoughts to bring about this nice sensation.

So the mind begins to rely on thoughts for good sensations and this become a very toxic group.

Like the mind relies on sugar,

It's the same problem.

When the mind relies on thoughts for good sensations,

Means for pleasure.

In that doing so,

Thoughts become disorder.

Just like when one begin to eat sugar,

One eats more and more and it become addiction.

Here the same,

No difference at all.

The addiction to the pleasure from thoughts.

But as long as there is a good sensation defined by the mind,

There is the opposite,

The bad ones.

You see the mind defines what is good and then the opposite appears,

The bad ones.

Thoughts can bring about the bad ones.

And when the mind is addicted to thoughts through the pleasure and such a mind is doomed to suffer because this addiction to thoughts.