# Thought cannot do anything about it

- Link: https://legawa.com/something-else/thought-cannot-do-anything-about-it/
- Published: 2007-04-27T20:25:00+07:00
- Author: Cahya

We must be aware of the nature of pleasure and what gives it strength and vitality,
which again is thought. It’s really very, very simple if one understands it: we 
see a woman, a car, a child, a house, a picture, or we listen to music; seeing, 
feeling, censoring that picture, that building, that woman, thought thinks about
it and gives to that pleasure strength and continuity. When we understand this we
see at the same time that, where there is pursuit of pleasure, there is always the
shadow of pain, the avoidance, the resistance. Thought creates resistance around
itself so that it will have no pain at all. Thought lives in this artificial pleasure
because of something that it has had or wants to have. If thought says, “I understand
this very well and I must act to get beyond it,” the beyond becomes another form
of pleasure created by thought. Thought has built a psychological structure of pleasure.
Seeing the nature of it, seeing that there is pain in it, thought says, “I must 
do something else: I must act differently, I must behave differently. I mustn’t 
think about pleasure; I must resist pleasure, I must do this and that.” The very
action which thought creates about pleasure is still pleasure. Thought cannot do
anything about it.\t\tCollected Works, Vol. XVI – 146