Robot Monk Xian'er

How to Face DesiresDesire means wanting something.All living beings have an instinctive need of seeking happiness and quitting sufferings.This is what drives desires that we wish to acquire the things we want.In other words, without desire we lose passion and hope in life.However, desire needs to be well set and managed for it can be either the source of energy or the root of afflictions.We ought to cultivate virtuous desires for kindness and truth.Such desires can help transform greedy desires for worldly affairs. Desires are not to be suppressed, but to be purified and transformed.Our mind always sets on something.If what’s good is not there, what’s evil sneaks in.When we don’t yet have the right view and mindfulness, it is impossible to suppress our afflictions, not to mention eliminate them.Therefore, one must eradicate evil and cultivate virtue at the same time.One should cultivate virtuous desires to transform evil desires.This is like planting crops in a field such that weeds have no place to grow. 如何面