Human Nature and Desire (Classic Good Article)

Mencius said, "It is better to cultivate the heart than to be widowed." "The wall stands tall, and the desireless is rigid." Only by letting go of the desire for external objects can a person regain inner peace and freedom. Desire is a human instinct, and food, clothing, shelter, and transportation are all driven by desire.

If one does not have desire, one cannot survive. However, everything has a degree, and if it is not controlled, desire is the biggest bane of life.

Shakespeare said, "Desire is like a charcoal fire, and it must be cooled, otherwise the fire will scorch the heart." "Everything has a price, and the result of indulging desires is the loss and decay of human nature.

There is such a story: on the seashore, there is a young man who picked up an abandoned leaky boat, made up and made up, and can go out to sea to fish. Every day Singing songs to go to sea, even if the net is empty, getting off the boat, lying on the beach, basking in the sun, singing songs, very happy. There is a fishmonger who lives in a villa on the shore, goes out early and returns late every day, and when he returns home, he is always busy calculating how much he has earned and lost today, and he has a sad face all day. Looking at the sea and the weather every day, worrying about the rise and fall of fish prices, there is no momentary happiness at all. The fishmonger's wife, hearing the young fisherman's song, envied the young man, how happy. The fishmonger sees the fisherman going out every morning to fish and sing songs and come home, but he worries every day and is not happy at all. The fishmonger was very confused, thinking to himself, I have so many fish, but I am so unhappy; he has not caught a single fish, how can he be so happy. The fishmonger felt that he should find out the reason and find a way to make the fisherman not too happy.

The fishmonger said to his wife, I have a way to try him, is it naïve to treat him? While the fisherman was singing on the shore, the fishmonger secretly put a large piece of gold in the fisherman's boat. The sun sets, the fisherman returns to the boat, sees this piece of gold, and is overjoyed, is this a gift from God? The fisherman holds the gold in his hand. This piece of gold can be replaced by this leaky boat that has been filled and repaired, and replaced by a large boat, so that he can catch a boat every day, and then buy a bigger boat, hire a few fishermen, and go fishing for him.

The boat, the bigger and bigger, the fish of the whole sea can belong to him. He is the biggest fishmonger on the shore, and if he monopolizes the price of fish, he can be the richest man on the shore. The fisherman thought all night, and that night he forgot to sing. The fishmonger had been watching outside, and he understood what was the reason for the fisherman to stop singing. From that night on, the fisherman was troubled and could no longer hear him singing. He sold the leaky ship, and with that gold, he took a loan shark and bought a big ship. Carrying a large amount of debt, living under pressure every day, he could no longer be happy. The fishmonger's wife never heard the fisherman's song again.

She saw from the window that the fisherman had disembarked, his face worried and worried. She asked her husband, "How did you do it, so that he is like us, and he doesn't know what happiness is." The fishmonger said, "I just let him have more than he needed, and that sparked his greed." If he is greedy, he is poor, and he will no longer be happy. Many years later, the fisherman also became a fishmonger, living in a villa on the shore, busy counting money, and frowning all day. He looks at the sea and the weather every day, worried about the rise and fall of fish prices. He had too many worries. There is no momentary silence in the heart, no momentary happiness. A tornado took several fishing boats to the reef and took a heavy toll. The fisherman was in a bad mood, his face was scorched, and he paced on the beach when he encountered a tramp singing on the beach.

He remembered his carefree days and asked the tramp, "You have nothing, how can you be so happy?" The tramp said, "How can I have nothing, I have the beach, I have the sun, I have health, I have no worries about food and clothing." "The fisherman has a little understanding that in this world, only contentment can make you happy. Contentment is always happy, not to say, but every moment, the heart is really content. He looked at the happy tramp, who was also such a contented man. He can never go back to the past, never to his true nature. From that piece of gold, he was no longer satisfied. That piece of gold robbed him of his happiness. And what is that piece of gold that makes it so easy and thorough, losing its authenticity, losing its happiness, losing its inner peace.

Since then, he has inscribed the word "contentment" on every boat. He knows that the only medicine to fight stress is "contentment." But, not a second, he was content.

Desire, like a snowball, rolls bigger and bigger. With a big ship, there is a bigger boat; with a bigger boat, there are more boats; with a villa, there is a bigger villa; there is a bigger villa, there is more villa; there is a beautiful woman, a woman with a younger style.

Desires can no longer be satisfied. Stress, can no longer get rid of. This life of a person is a trial! What is tested is human nature, and what is tempered is the human heart.

Human nature is greedy, even if you get the golden mountain and silver mountain, you are not happy; human nature is complicated, even if you have years to be quiet and good. Learn to calm down! In the face of life's gains and losses, summarize the precipitation, tolerate the waves of the years, and face the ups and downs of life.

We cannot escape the ups and downs of life, in order to cultivate a heart that is not shocked by honor and humiliation. When Yang Dai was a hundred years old, he said: "We were so eager for the waves of fate, and in the end we found that the most beautiful scenery of life was actually the calm and calm in the heart; we looked forward to the recognition of the outside world so much, and in the end we knew that the world is our own and has nothing to do with others." ”

People, only a lifetime, chase too many desires, will only be physically and mentally exhausted. Happiness comes from the contentment of the heart; happiness comes from spiritual richness.

Contentment is the only way to be carefree. Only by being carefree can we be calm. Only when the mind is quiet can we be at ease. Freedom can be happy from the heart.

Contentment is the calmness and calmness in the heart, just like the gentle passage of time, not stained with wind and dust. The end of the world, all in the heart. It is three thousand weak waters, take only one scoop, be content, and be happy. The heart has hope, but knows how to stop at the end of fate, and it will be a clear sky when you look back