#channel/bodhi-light-teachings  Your thinking mind puts a cap on how much pleasure you can get out of life. The intellectuals and ordinary people don't get it. I'm telling you, there's a cap to all sorts of pleasure you can experience, whether it's drugs, whether it's praise, whether it's sensual pleasure. It's still processed by the thinking mind. You don't believe me, keep on practicing Chan. When you put an end to this thinking mind, that's when your inner pleasure emerges. Then you're never going back. You're free from all this. People praise you, people slander you, it doesn't affect you anymore.