Chapter 44 Desire

There is a famous saying in ancient times: a person has a body of seven feet, except for this mind and reason, there is nothing valuable, it is a bag of pus and blood, wrapped in a big bone; hungry can eat, thirsty can drink; can wear clothes, can engage in lust; poor and humble And thinking about wealth and honor, riches and honor are greedy for power and power; suddenly strife, worry and sorrow; These words really fully express the essence and value of human beings.The reason why people are human is to have benevolence and rationality in order to have the value of being human.Otherwise, it's just a bag of thick blood, skin and flesh, flesh and bones, how is it different from animals?

No matter how the times progress, the basic conditions for being a human being will never change.If a person loses his benevolence and rationality, he also loses his qualifications to be a human being. Unfortunately, the weakness of human nature is most easily corroded by pleasure.Poverty leads to abuse and pleasure leads to prostitution, all because they lack benevolence and rationality, and cannot withstand the temptation of materialistic enjoyment, so that they behave jealously, resentfully or dissolutely, and even become robbers and robbers, breaking the law, and have no regrets. It is not a great evil for people to have desires; but it depends on whether the desires come out and the desires are used.The instinct of desire motivates a person to work hard, but it should be deserved and deserved.This requires rationality to navigate for it, so as not to sink into the sea of ​​desire.The difference between man and beast is that man is a rational animal, and there is only a thin line of difference.That is to say, because there is only this one-line difference, it is easy to overshoot, and if you are not careful, you will be reduced to the same kind as a beast!

It is a human desire to be poor and humble to be rich, but one should pursue it in the right way; being rich and greedy for power is not all a bad thing, but it depends on whether the use of power is for one's own selfishness or for the benefit of the general public.This means that there should be a distinction between rationality and animal nature. There is an ancient saying: Propriety, righteousness, honesty and shame are the four dimensions of a country.If some part of the social atmosphere of an era has reached the point of being shameless, it is not only a personal tragedy, but also a humiliation to this era.Anyone with benevolence and rationality should rise up and attack them.It is better to seek the blessings of the whole boat than to only know how to seek more blessings for oneself; and only if the whole boat is blessed can the individual be blessed.

Laughing at the poor but not laughing at prostitutes and laughing at the poor but not laughing at robbers, they hardly know what shame is in the world. They are all unhealthy tendencies that corrupt the hearts of the society.All kinds of audio-visual communication functions, especially should be rectified.For another example, if the behavior of the female artist who is only greedy for quick profit and forgetting the old righteousness and abandoning the old love is not enough, wouldn't it encourage people's desire?And the non-cultivation of private morality will affect the visual and visual field, which is both wide and large!

That is to say, human desire is the instinct of human nature, which can be good or evil; one must be able to have benevolence and rationality at the same time, in order to be righteous.Is it not the case?