Desire is born, and from the moment it falls to the ground, the need to survive is rooted in everyone's body and consciousness. Desire comes from human instincts and is the nature of human beings to exist in the world. Desire is the intrinsic driving force of human progress, and desire is all the driving force for human beings to produce, develop, and move. All human activities in the world, whether politics, wars, commerce, culture, religion, art, education, etc., are the result of the drive of human desires. However, excessive desire will lead to a sharp decrease in their own happiness index, happiness or not, not in the gain or loss, but in the heart to ask for.
In the long development of human society, the desire to survive has long occupied the mainstream of desire. Chasing wild beasts for food, choosing to live in groups to resist the attacks of beasts of prey, seeking to become resource allocators or allocators in order to obtain more resources for life. Since the formation of the primitive social system, for thousands of years, whether it is slave society or feudal society, although the social productive forces have continued to develop, many people's desires have remained on the verge of survival and death. On the brink of life and death, people developed a desire to move closer to the ruling class, and countless wars arose, as did the change of dynasties. The desire to survive, the desire to eat, the desire for wealth, the desire for power, etc., all kinds of desires push the pace of society into a new era.
Because of desire, human beings have the need to move forward and have the motivation to progress. Turning to ancient writings, there are many discussions about desire. Whether it is Taoism, Confucianism, bingjia, or Dharma and Zonghengjia, they all pay attention to the study of "human desire". "Human desire" is the beginning of all human activity, and grasping this source that dominates everything will lead to endless energy. Man is the product of desire, and life is the continuation of desire. Desire is the fundamental force for the generation and development of all human beings and societies. However, in the social life of ordinary people, excessive desire has become the source of many people's unhappiness and unhappiness. Especially today, when the social productive forces are highly developed, all kinds of desires have brought deep distress to more and more people. There are those who have a strong desire to consume and are heavily indebted, those who have a strong desire for power and are imprisoned, those who have a strong desire to succeed and go astray, those who have a strong desire for wealth and commit adultery, those who have a strong desire for emotion and are bad manners...
Misfortunes caused by desire abound, but many people still can't see the negative effects of desire and still have all kinds of desires.
Learning to control one's desires is the source of happiness. When desires and abilities do not match, when desires are contrary to social ethics, it is necessary to objectively and clearly understand the social environment and clear self-positioning. Blindly pursuing goals that are beyond their own ability, the pain of unsatisfied desires also comes, and they can't ask for it, and they are unhappy all the time. Therefore, the ancients said that "no desire is rigid" and "content and always happy", it is difficult to achieve no desire, but after soberly understanding yourself, it is relatively simple to be content. As Chicken Soup says: Happiness is not about getting more, but about thinking less.
Controlling desires requires sufficient accumulation of knowledge and rich social experience. Reading thousands of books, walking thousands of miles, the experience of predecessors between the lines, and the cold and warm of the world that you have experienced will be transformed into the wisdom of life and precipitated in the depths of your heart. In the face of sufficient knowledge reserves, after reading the sour, sweet and bitter spicy in the world, the suffering brought about by desire will disappear. Without the loss of unattainable, exert the positive energy of desire, happiness is waiting for you not far ahead.
Not being kidnapped by desire, every day of life is full of brilliant sunshine; not getting lost in desire, in order to truly grasp the direction of their own life; without the bondage of desire, can we seriously chase poetry and far away.