Chapter 14: Desire

Desire is an innate possession of human beings, and human beings are superior to other primates in terms of intelligence, and the greatest is desire. And every progress and discovery of human beings is derived from the ever-expanding desire!

Desire is innate, but in the acquired artificial definition, it defines desire as the source of sin, in fact, this is not the most fundamental reason for the matter, and even people in later generations hate desire, and many sects in later generations also practice for the purpose of suppressing desire or abandoning desire, which is wrong from the root!

Human beings can be divided into two parts: the body and the soul, and all the actions of the body except for the needs and desires of survival, such as appetite and warmth, are under the command of the soul.

And all the roots of the soul are derived from desire, thought! What you want to do is the beginning of desire, the generation of ideas! Therefore, the pursuit of desirelessness is also the pursuit, if you want to attain the Tao, you also think, if you want to become a Buddha, you also think, and desire is the mind, which is good or bad, and comes from the soul!

So desires, ideas, and dreams are all one! And the progress of human life is the continuous increase of desire, and it can be said that desire is the driving force of human progress! If a person loses interest in everything, the appetite, the eyes, the lust, the enjoyment, affection, love, friendship, interest, hobbies, curiosity, exploration, money, fame and fortune brought by the five senses... If everything loses its desire, then this person will not want to survive anymore, and he will be uncomfortable for every second he lives, just like you hate a family very much, you will be annoyed when you go in, you will want to escape, you hate a company, you will choose to leave.

When you have no desire for life and reach a state of theoretical desirelessness, you will want to give up life and choose death at this time.

The soul can be divided into three categories, desire, reason, and emotion!

Desire is constantly breaking through reason, constantly increasing, making human beings progress while also doing things that destroy themselves, so at this time there will be reason to regulate, suppress, restrain and tell yourself what you can do and what you can't do. Reason is the innate self-protection system of human beings, desire is the thing of human survival, satisfying desires will bring enjoyment, all kinds of desires, bringing human beings to continue to survive and enjoy!

Every second reason suppresses desire, and every second desire wants to break through reason!

These two opposing and harmonious systems are in the friction of the human soul from birth to death. Both of these can be easily controlled, but emotions are a system that is difficult for human beings to control, so the acquired self-cultivation is emotion, the way emotions run and the way of the avenue is the same, they can not be excessive, smile, slight anger, slight injury, are okay, but anger, joy, compassion... These excessive emotions will not only break the mind, but also cause damage to the body and soul, so in the soul, emotional control is always the most important!

It is different from desire, different from reason, only control, suppress can be peaceful, the generation of emotions must need to be released, long-term can be suppressed without release will not disappear, he will be suppressed in the body, until it accumulates a certain amount, it will become harmful to the body, such as anger, anger, resentment, etc., are harmful to the body.

Therefore, the generation of emotions must be reasonably released and eliminated, otherwise it will bring very serious consequences!

Looking at the creatures on the whole earth, among the known creatures, human desires are the strongest, and animals are more carnal desires, lusts, appetites, and so on!

Human beings are different, and the greatest benefit of human beings is the desire to explore!

The desire to understand many things constantly urges human beings to think and find. This desire to be curious, to explore, is a great motivation for progress!

There is also vanity! It can also be called the desire to compare!

This is a kind of comparison between human beings and their own group, if everyone only has one set of clothes, they will not feel that there is anything wrong, but everyone has two sets, and he only has one set, his heart will feel unfair, and he wants to compare, to get the desire to be satisfied!

Someone else has one, he wants to have two, and this sense of superiority makes human beings feel happy and satisfied, but then people are like having three... Constant acquisition of desire, continuous comparison, and continuous struggle, but desire is endless, constant comparison, vanity will only make everyone's life more and more difficult, at this time reason will come out to stop this excessive desire.

Desire is a kind of enjoyment and satisfaction of human beings, but it must be kept within reason, beyond the degree, it will make people call themselves slaves of desire, but in the end they live very painfully! It was supposed to be the most happy, but it backfired, and it was all wrong!

There is no good or bad desire itself, but it hurts the desires of others in the process of satisfaction and expression, and this mode of operation is called evil desire. Not harming anyone else when you satisfy your own desires is called the desire of duty.

When you satisfy your own desires, you can even satisfy the desires of others, which is called good desires.

Everyone wants the world to be peaceful, because the world is too peaceful, and they can be safe. All his desires are the peace of the world, and he is committed to fighting for this goal and desire, and this goal is achieved, which is good for all, and this is called good desire. Great goodness!

Everyone has an appetite, a desire for comparison, and vanity, and in order to satisfy their appetite and vanity, they let others be used as foils below and hurt others, which is called evil desire! Everyone wants to stand on top and enjoy vanity, and hate the feeling of being inferior to others below, so human beings will continue to harm themselves, and when will they repay themselves, it is similar to this meaning!

Desire is selfishness, selfishness is selflessness, when you work hard to satisfy your desires, you help the whole world to satisfy your desires, and you change from selfishness to selflessness.

The process of desire will produce the right desire and the wrong desire, the so-called right is not to use the rules that hurt others to satisfy the desire, and others will not hurt you like you. The so-called mistake is to use the rules of desire that hurt others to satisfy yourself, then when others use this rule of desire, it will also hurt you, which is defined by people as good and evil, and is divided into selflessness and selfishness!

Everything is just the size of the pattern, the collision in the driving of desire, follow the avenue of heaven and earth, and satisfy your desires fairly, then the world will be peaceful.

Selflessness is selfishness, and the ability to do good and evil is one, all of which come from desire!