Volume 6 Greed Chapter 1 Human Nature is Greedy
Desire is the requirement of human nature to achieve a certain goal, and there is no good or evil in desire, the key is how to control it. One of the most primitive and basic instincts of all animals in the world. From the perspective of human beings, it is a kind of desire and satisfaction from the mind to the body, and it is an indispensable need for the existence of all animals. The most basic desire of all animals is to survive and exist. To put it simply, it's love and dissatisfaction.
The original meaning of greed refers to the love of money, the original meaning of greed refers to the love of food, and greed refers to insatiable greed, which means excessive desire for a certain goal that is not commensurate with one's strength. It is a pathological psychology, compared to normal desires, when greed is not satisfied, on the contrary, the more satisfied, the greater the appetite. The world is bustling, all for profit. The world is crowded, all for profit.
Human desires are the requirements of human nature to achieve a certain goal, and there is no good or evil in desire, the key is how to control it.
One of the most primitive and basic instincts of all animals in the world. From the perspective of human beings, it is a kind of desire and satisfaction from the mind to the body, and it is an indispensable need for the existence of all animals. The most basic desire of all animals is to survive and exist.
The excessive expansion of desire is the enemy of happiness, so those who are content are always happy.
Desire intersects with nature, and desire includes dreams and greed. Human desires are the demands of human nature to achieve a certain end. Human desires are diverse, and the needs for survival, enjoyment, and development constitute a complex structure of needs, and change with the changes in the social environment and socio-historical conditions in which people live.
"Without an understanding of desire, one can never be freed from shackles and fears. If you destroy your desires, probably you also destroy your life. If you twist it, suppress it, you may destroy extraordinary beauty. ”
"Life and death are fundamental, and desire is the first. "Desire is an integral part of human beings. Greedy endless desires, after the needs of life are satisfied to a certain extent, new needs are started to be satisfied, and finally endless greed is formed.
Everyone has desires, desires are endless, desires within the normal range are called needs, and excessive amounts are called greed.
Let's look at the word "greed", the top is today, the bottom is shellfish, today represents face-to-face, shellfish represents money, and together they are face-to-face money. But this word is a meaning word, as a desire to explain, and its original meaning is to take money that should not be taken in person. Bei Shang Jia Jin, it means that the greedy person often thinks about the current benefits, and specializes in the present gains, that is, he thinks day and night about taking more possessions and benefits for himself.
Greed, the semantic meaning is not satisfied, or there is a lot of desire and not being satisfied, and the left and right are evil in the ancient text, thinking that they are greedy and not satisfied ("Warring States Policy: Qi Ce IV") and other sentences all indicate this meaning. The synonym is insatiable, that is, greedy and greedy, which means greedy by nature. It means insatiable (in a derogatory sense). "Chu Ci Lisao": Everyone is competing to be greedy, and they are not desperate to seek. Wang Yi's note: "Love money is greedy, love food is greedy." The fourth fold of Yuan Gao Wenxiu's "Meeting the Emperor": "The official is not willing, and Lu Zhong is also greedy." ”
Riding a crane to Yangzhou: Tang Anonymous's "Shang Yun Novel": "There are guests to follow, each with their own aspirations, or willing to make more money for Yangzhou, or willing to ride a crane to rise." One of them said: 'Wrap 100,000 yuan around your waist and ride a crane to Yangzhou.' 'Desire to do both. "Several people together have their own aspirations, some want to be high-ranking officials, some want to get rich, some want to ride a crane to the sky to become immortals, and one of them wants to have all three. Later, he used "riding a crane in Yangzhou, riding a crane in Yangzhou, riding a crane in Yangzhou, crossing a crane in Yangzhou, riding a crane with a waist gold, riding a crane with a waist, wrapping a crane around the waist, and wrapping a hundred thousand around the waist" to refer to the combination of being an official, making a fortune, and becoming an immortal, or describing greed, delusion, or writing about things and a state of pride.
The human heart is not enough for snakes to swallow elephants, "The Classic of Mountains and Seas, the South of the Sea": "The snake eats elephants, and its bones come out at the age of three." Warring States Chu Qu Yuan's "Heavenly Question": "A snake swallows an elephant, how big is it?"
According to legend, in ancient times, there was a demon beast, it looked very ugly, with a bloody mouth, as if it wanted to swallow mountains and rivers, only had a horn, the god was greedy and treacherous, and its appetite was very big, and it could swallow gold and silver treasures. It soars through the clouds and stoms on treasures, and the eight treasures of the Eight Immortals, such as the golden gourd with the iron cane on its back, and the soul reviving fan of Han Zhongli, have all been taken by it as own, but it is still not satisfied. One day, when it saw the fiery red sun rising over the East China Sea, it wanted to swallow the red sun in one gulp, but it fell into the sea and drowned in a hurry.
The Mask of Greed flew within the range of the Taiqing Gate in that battle, but at that time, the Heavenly Mandate Daoist and the Heavenly Apocalypse Daoist were fighting in Mount Tai, and they had no time to care about anything else, so the Heavenly Apocalypse Daoist didn't know about this at all.
Xie Xiaoyu is the inner disciple of Taiqingmen, and he is also well-known among the inner disciples, because Xie Xiaoyu ranks third among the inner disciples, the first is Chen Jing, Chen Jing is also the best of all the disciples of Taiqingmen, and the one with the most amazing talent, the second is Lei Ling, this is also a talented person, Xie Xiaoyu is not as lucky as them, he is relatively ordinary, but he climbed to the third position with his own efforts.
In fact, in the cultivation realm, there are often a small number of people who are gifted, and this kind of people seem to be favored by the heavens, who have endowed them with talents that are stronger than others in a certain aspect, have their own specialties, and are born to be one step ahead of others on the path of cultivation.
Chen Jing is such a person, God may have kissed his eyes and let him have a pair of heavenly eyes, why do you call these eyes the eyes of heaven? These eyes are blue, like a sapphire like a unique light, the magic of these eyes is that it is not the same as the perspective of ordinary people, if ordinary people can only see one side, such as a person standing in front of you, you can only see his front, can not see his side, the difference between these eyes is here, these eyes can see the perspective in all directions, if this is in the battle, this is an absolute advantage, in the duel, some small advantages, may lead to the victory of a battle, may also decide the life and death of othersIf you know what someone else is going to do next, you have a way to deal with it, your opponent is in your hands, why should your opponent fight you.
Cheng Jing is not the only one who is talented, Lei Ling is also favored by the heavens, Lei Ling has a nine-trick exquisite heart, this heart can help Lei Ling gather the aura between heaven and earth, purify it, and then purify the magazines in it. The aura between heaven and earth cannot be directly absorbed, because it contains magazines, so it is necessary to refine these aura in order to be absorbed by the monks, so that having this heart avoids the process of refining, reducing this step, and the speed will be much faster than others, and his heart can also help him to multitask, what is multitasking? To put it simply, when fighting, both hands are equivalent to complete liberation, for some people, they are born to use a right-handed sword, and some people are born to use a left-handed sword, this is because of habit, if you suddenly change your habits, then it is very inconvenient, but for this kind of person, there is no such thing, just like Lei Ling uses a sword in his left hand and a knife in his right hand, so that they can complement each other and make their combat power to a higher level, this is another role of the Nine Tricks Exquisite Heart.
However, such talents are unique in ten thousand, and each one of them is a genius suitable for cultivation, but such a monk may destroy the balance between heaven and earth, so the heavens dare not let such a genius be born too much. Xie Xiaoyu was not so lucky, although he had some talent in cultivation, but he had not reached the point of being talented, so his cultivation in the inner gate was naturally no match for those two people who were favored by God.
People go to high places, water flows to low places, Xie Xiaoyu is not only satisfied with the position of the third in the inner door, what he values is the first position, in Xie Xiaoyu's eyes, the second and third are the foil of the first, no one will remember the second and third, only the first place will be remembered, Xie Xiaoyu has coveted the first position more than once, he has participated in three competitions between the inner doors, but he has not beaten those two talented people.
In fact, there is Lei Ling like him, his position is also more awkward, between the first and third, and between those who are favored by God and those who are not favored by God, he also wants to be the first person in the inner gate, maybe God favors Chen Jing a little more, Lei Ling is also like Xie Xiaoyu, he has participated in several inner door competitions, but every time he was beaten down by Chen Jing and became the second in the Taiqing Gate.
Xie Xiaoyu has to work harder than the two senior brothers, but his cultivation is still not as good as the other two senior brothers, Xie Xiaoyu has never given up, he believes that his efforts will definitely pay off, as long as he does not give up, one day, he will not be the third, he will become the first person in the inner door.
After all, they are all located between the inner gates, plus they are senior brothers, there are many opportunities to meet, the competition between the various sects, they also need to go to the town, and some trials can only be completed by the team. The trials of each sect are relatively cruel, after all the disciples participate in the trial, in the trial, it is generally life and death, in that trial, Xie Xiaoyu was conspired against, and was attacked by the top disciples of the other two sects, Xie Xiaoyu could not have fought, Xie Xiaoyu could only turn from attack to defense, in the process Xie Xiaoyu was seriously injured, while guarding, while retreating, Xie Xiaoyu was about to be unable to withstand the time.
At this time, Chen Jing rushed here, Chen Jing is the senior brother of the inner disciple, and naturally he will not let others bully the people of his own sect, so he made a decisive move, although he beat the two away, but these two people are also the elites of other sects, plus Xie Xiaoyu was seriously injured at that time, and he did not have any fighting ability, not only did he not help anything, but on the contrary, he also became a drag oil bottle, Chen Jing was stabbed by the opponent on the arm in order to save Xie Xiaoyu, leaving a scar, and successfully saved Xie Xiaoyu. It was also in this unexpected assistance that Xie Xiaoyu naturally felt that he couldn't go, and often came to visit Chen Jing, so that once he was born and second was mature, the two became very familiar with each other every time, and the two slowly became very good friends later.
Xie Xiaoyu and Chen Jing are good friends, it does not mean that they are good friends with Lei Ling, although they are both from the same door, Xie Xiaoyu and Lei Ling not only have a bad relationship, on the contrary, the relationship between the two is very bad.
This is because there were also two things that happened between them, so that the two of them couldn't take care of the friendship of the door, and this incident broke the relationship between the two directly.