If your mind remains calm, everything will be calm and you will not be a slave to desire.

In this materialistic society, sometimes we are indeed forced to face many temptations. If we lack determination and foresight, and do not know how to restrain ourselves, the direction of our lives can easily get out of control. In the end, they panic and have no way out. Many people can only choose to drift with the crowd and become slaves controlled by the external world.

A philosopher once said: "Life is full of poppies. They are beautiful and charming on the surface, but hiddenly harmful and toxic." We all seem to understand this truth: the more beautiful the appearance, the more poisonous it is. The more beautiful things are, the more they are filled with deadly toxins; the more lustful things are, the more they are traps. Beneath those alluring exteriors, there's always a deadly danger hidden.

But these temptations have the power to attract people. We tend to be like moths to a flame, throwing reason behind and even losing the most basic judgment ability for the sake of that moment of pleasure. . In this way, we who have lost our resistance naturally become willing slaves of temptation.

Everyone will have many desires, some desires are normal, while others are abnormal or even evil desires. "Greed is enough, the snake swallows the elephant." "It's hard to fill the sea of ??desires, but it ruins your life."

People always lament that "moths fly into the flame", people always ridicule "fish takes the bait", and people always joke about "getting stuck in the quagmire". But if you think about it carefully, are there many tragedies of this kind of desire around us in our lives? The human heart is not enough. Those who indulge their souls will eventually lose their true freedom! You must always be wary of bad desires.

Delete bad desires and do not indulge yourself.

There is a kind of monkey in Changbeir in the Algiers region that likes to steal farmers' rice. Based on the characteristics of these monkeys, local farmers invented an ingenious way to capture monkeys: fix a gourd-shaped bottle with a thin neck on a big tree and put rice in it that the monkeys like to eat.

When the monkey arrives and sees the rice in the bottle, he will put his hand into the bottle to grab the rice. The advantage of the bottle is that the monkey's hand can just reach in, and when he grabs a handful of rice, he will retreat. When I took my hand, I couldn't take it out.

But the greedy monkey refused to put down the rice he had received. Just like that, it couldn't get it back, so it stayed beside the bottle. When the farmer caught it the next morning, it still wouldn't let go of its paws until it put the rice in its mouth.

What was the monkey caught for? That rice? No! That bottle? No! It's because of my own greed!

In fact, many people will make the same mistakes as monkeys on the road of life. Because of greed and not knowing how to say "no" to temptation, I ended up becoming a slave to temptation, paying a heavy price and even regretting it for the rest of my life.

Nothing in this world can be obtained casually without paying a price.

Therefore, every appearance of temptation must be accompanied by considerable risks, and this risk is usually unpredictable. Facing the rich and noisy social life, impetuous desires will be easily mobilized. If coupled with our own lack of willpower and control, we will naturally fall into the abyss of temptation.

Feng Menglong once told such a story in "Yu Shi Ming Yan": In the Shuiyue Temple of Lin'an in the Southern Song Dynasty, there was an eminent monk named Yutong. He practiced hard and hoped to become a Buddha soon. But he refused to pay homage to the newly appointed Lin'an Prefecture Yin Liu Xuanjiao. Liu Xuanjiao held a grudge and was determined to destroy his practice.

How to destroy it? Just let Yutong break the lust warning!

Liu Xuanjiao found the prostitute Honglian to seduce Honglian.

Honglian pretended to be a virtuous woman whose husband had just died, wearing sackcloth and mourning. On a stormy night, she used the excuse of having no place to live and begged Yutong to let her go in to escape the wind and rain.

Yutong couldn't bear it and let Honglian in. After entering the house, Hong Lian became more and more aggressive. She pretended to have a stomachache and said that she had to "open her belly and rub her navel" with Monk Yutong to get better.

Monk Yutong finally failed to hold on and broke the sexual precept. Monk Yutong, who broke the sexual precept, was filled with regret, left a desperate poem, and passed away.

Most of the time people say "I am the master of my life". In fact, sometimes we are the masters and sometimes we are the slaves. To be precise, most of the time we are the slaves.

Being the master of your own life is very rare. We live to be busy for our own desires and to make money for our own desires.

Striving to have something for your own desires, arguing for your own desires, fighting for your own desires. Therefore, we all become slaves to our desires.

It is very important to have right views in our lives. Wrong views and right views are like two parallel lines that will never intersect; in other words, they run counter to each other, so the distance will only become wider and wider. Far.

Kapiev said, "Thoughts and maxims can beautify the soul, just as flowers can beautify a room." Self-discipline is a kind of charm, a kind of calmness hidden in temperament, and a quality that no amount of money can buy.

I once read a story: A group of people were carrying a heavy cross and were walking hard. Since there was no one to supervise the way, most people were smart enough to cut off a section of the cross. This was really easy. A lot.

So after walking for a while and cutting off another section, only one person always consciously carried the heavy cross and moved forward hard. In this way, many people easily surpassed him.

Unexpectedly, everyone later encountered a deep and wide ravine on the way. All the people in front stopped in front of the gully, feeling extremely anxious and blaming God for making things difficult.

At this time, the only conscious ones, those who were left behind, slowly caught up. He put the cross he had carried so hard on the ravine and crossed it easily. Others also wanted to do the same, but unfortunately the cross had been cut off long ago.

From this story, it is not difficult to understand that by developing the habit of self-discipline and integrating self-discipline into our own body and soul, we can surpass ourselves in self-discipline and slowly achieve ourselves in self-discipline.

It is said, “The playfulness of a 20-year-old leads to the helplessness of a 30-year-old; the helplessness of a 30-year-old leads to inaction at the age of 40; the inaction of a 40-year-old leads to failure at the age of 50; The failure has created a lifetime of sorrow."

And the thought-provoking Big Cat said: In the first 20 years of life, you cannot afford to waste a year, even half a year. Because everyone is racing on the same track at this stage, if there is a slight difference, it will probably take half a lifetime to make up for it.

Every stage of life is interrelated. If you control things from the beginning and strictly demand yourself, you will not end up disappointed every time. Therefore, it is absolutely correct to say that self-discipline is the most noble standard in life.

As someone once said, striving for progress when you are young should be like cleaning your yard, cutting out weeds and distractions, and focusing on your own growth.

Wang Yangming told us that the secret of everything is just three words: unmoved heart. The secret of an unmoved heart is just one sentence: retract your outward pursuit of your gaze, rediscover your inner conscience, and act accordingly.

If your heart is unmoved, everything will be calm. Stop being a slave to desire and don’t indulge yourself. Be strict with yourself from now on. I believe that over time, self-discipline will become a habit and a healthy lifestyle.

Some people say that in a modern family, there are three protagonists: parents, children, and mobile phones. Have you noticed that since the advent of mobile phones, some young people who were originally full of energy have become silent, deaf to what is going on outside the window, and only focus on browsing their mobile phones. When walking, I play with my mobile phone; after class, I play with my mobile phone; during class, I still play with my mobile phone. The "low-talkers" "surf" in the ocean of the Internet and get lost on campus.

Mobile phones can be said to be the biggest obstacle to students' self-discipline, plaguing both students and teachers. It is true that today, when smartphones have become widely popularized, the student population has become the "hardest hit area" for mobile phone dependence.

Looking around, this type of nipple fun has become an extremely common pastime among young people nowadays. Popular TV series, XX Honor games on mobile phones, endless short videos in X music... they have built an overwhelming network that surrounds our lives.

I can’t concentrate when I’m working, so I have to check my phone every few minutes; I have to check my phone on my commute, while waiting for the subway, in line, and when I’m eating and going to the toilet. Regardless of whether they have free time or not, too many people are dominated by their mobile phones and have become head-downers who won't let go until they go to bed.

Psychological research shows that people’s concentration can be tamed. If you watch 15-second short videos since you were a child, your concentration will become shorter. If you watch continuous things, your concentration will increase. a lot of.

The short videos of more than ten seconds are very popular, one after another, never letting you stop. Fancy jokes, funny actions, and exaggerated interpretations all stimulate people's senses to the maximum extent. People's thinking and consciousness habits are being reshaped unconsciously. "Nipple fun" creates a brain that is easily distracted, greatly weakening the ability to think deeply.

And work is cultivation. Not working hard is the greatest unscrupulousness. Kazuo Inamori, a Japanese management guru who is known as a master of Yomei’s philosophy, said that practicing at work is the most important and most effective way to help us improve our character and cultivate our personality. When we work hard, we use work to hone our hearts, elevate our soul levels, and illuminate our consciences.

If we want to be free from temptation and refuse the harm of temptation, we must practice and keep an indifferent heart. Without greed, we will naturally not be easily hurt by temptation. When a person's heart is full of tranquility and calmness, he will become calm and rational, and he will make relatively wise and rational judgments when encountering problems.