Root of Desire

When a person is in the world, his seven emotions and six desires follow him like a shadow. The seven emotions are joy, anger, worry, thinking, sadness, fear, and surprise; the six desires include the desire to see, hear, smell, taste, touch, and will. They are intertwined into complex human nature, and among them, emotion is the root and source of desire. It gives temperature and color to desire, and controls the direction of desire. When we clarify the relationship between love and desire and be guided by sincere and pure love, we can make desire become the force that promotes our own growth, instead of being swallowed up by desire and lost in the maze of human nature.