I am a Buddhist disciple who is in the secular world and I also know the Buddhist generals who promote good and eliminate evil. But when looking at this world objectively, basically everything is a carrier of evil. Anyone who has seen the good and evil of animals knows that basic

I am a Buddhist disciple in the secular world, and I also know the Buddhist generals who promote good and eliminate evil. But when looking at this world objectively, basically everything is a carrier of evil.

See the good and evil of animals

Those who have seen the animal world know that basically all animals are only doing two things, one is to survive, and the other is to reproduce offspring.

From the perspective of survival, it is the prey of the jungle in biological chain . Eat one, and gram one. Of course, in the animal world, this is called instinct. They don’t know what good or evil is, they only know how to survive.

Kill for food

From the perspective of reproduction, there is indeed a little warmth. For example, parents will take good care of their children, but the premise is their children. Even among similar animals, most of them are very cruel when dealing with children who are not themselves. Like a group of tigers and lions. They are social animals and an organizational group led by an animal. In order to gain full dominance. When a male tiger or a lion occupies absolute strength, it will bite the children of other animals to death to ensure that they are all descendants of their own bloodlines in the future.

Even if this problem does not occur, when animals were young, they started to compete early in order to survive. All they want is to be able to eat, fill their stomachs, and live. Parents don’t care about their own struggles, because they only need to live with the ability, and starve to death if they don’t have the ability. From this point of view, it is both realistic and ruthless, but this is the truth in nature.

There is no ugliness, only the instinct of life.

We cannot fully evaluate animals as evil because they do not have these concepts themselves. Just like they are rare like humans, killing because of hatred, everything is just for survival.

Animals reproduce and offspring

The evil of human nature

There is no difference between humans and animals in essence, it is just that humans have obtained higher abilities in language passwords, self-cognition, learning and thinking.

From the perspective of humans as animals, the survival instinct that animals need is also needed by humans. If this need is needed, there will inevitably be competition and plunder due to the acquisition of resources. People in the environment are closer to wild beasts, just like primitive people who are just starting out.

to form a family and a tribe. Compete with other different groups for all resources, and there is a distinction between you and me.

obtain survival resources based on tribes as a group

From the perspective of people being more advanced, more rational, more able to think and act. What humans do is to plunder, acquire, cut down, and kill nature more. The opposition, competition, and domination between people are also stronger and more prominent.

We always say that we are more advanced, and we also say that we are standing at the top of the food chain. I don’t want to say that I am bad, I always say that I am kind, great, and amazing!

These are just decorations and beautifications of myself, just like no one would say that I am bad, but I always comment on others’ badness. If everyone is a good person, where does the bad person come from?

My personal understanding is that the more advanced human beings live (the meaning of this advanced is that in order to live better, people try their best to obtain all resources), the more obvious and prominent the evil in human nature!

In this era of civilization, everyone says that they are civilized people, and everyone says how beautiful the world is. In fact, the world is not that beautiful, because you are living a better life, or your heart is better. Human beings have long been blinded by their own desires and do not know what is right or wrong. Just blindly develop and progress.

Development and destruction and pollution

The goodness of human nature

Having said so much about the evil of human nature, isn’t it really good?

That's not!

I said this just to analyze this real phenomenon from a rational and objective perspective. It is not that humans are extremely evil. Just as animals need to survive, human acquisition is also an instinct that comes from one's own.

The reason why humans are great is that they have the ability to obtain resources, the ability to change their living environment, and can learn and think.

Humans will correct and adjust themselves.

This is what is called cultivation. You must correct yourself and educate yourself.

This is morality, to become a person with morality and virtue.

Self-correction and understanding

Buddhism says that no desires and no desires means abandoning the evil of instinct. If you seek and win, you must have a determination. There is gain and gain, there must be greed. When you see color, you will have lust. If you are competitive, you must have the will to kill.

Break free from the shackles of desire and not driven by animal nature. When faced with all kindness, it will naturally come from the heart. So how can evil come about?

In fact, Buddhism does not talk about good and evil, because this is based on relative status and is inherently nothing.

However, although there is no good or evil, the mind is calm and naturally everything goes towards benevolence, kindness and mercy.

So my conclusion is that human nature is evil, but you can seek goodness. When a person is good, he will have the heart of Buddha!