Anything that we discover, the laws of nature or whatever you call it, are used by us only for destructive purposes. Thought is not the instrument for achieving anything other than the goals set before us by our culture or society, or whatever you want to call it. Even the invention of what is called a thoughtless state, placed before us by many spiritual teachers as a goal to be reached, is created by thought so that it can, by pursuing what it calls a thoughtless state, maintain its own continuity. So whatever we experience in this process of achieving the goal of a thoughtless state strengthens and fortifies the very thing that we are trying to be free from. There may not be any such thing as a cause at all.
Every event is an individual and independent event.
We link up all these events and try to create a story of our lives. But actually every event is an independent event. If we accept the fact that every event is an independent event in our lives, it creates a tremendous problem of maintaining what we call identity. And identity is the most important factor in our lives. We are able to maintain this identity through the constant use of memory, which is also thought.