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Vol.6 Way to make oneself mentality prepared.
 Humans have various types of desires. Typical ones are appetite, cupidity, aphrodisia, and lust for publicity.

 Desire is something hard to take control of. I believe it is not far from the truth that the majority of incidents reported by newspapers originated from the inability to control desires. In the world of literature and performing arts, there are sayings that “One’s quality of performance deepens by being honest to his / her desires” “Following one’s heart is the ideal of what human life should be”, but in the real world, these actions immediately lead to downfall.

 In the old days high priests sat in Zen mediation and performed cold water ablutions by a fall. I believe that these people were ultimately in search of “how to overcome desires”.

 Everyday life changes rapidly, and we face new challenges all the time. We encounter problems and find ways to resolve them one by one. Interestingly, most of the factors which require answers are connected to one of the abovementioned desires.

 Humans are weak – human errors occur due to environmental and physical circumstances. If there are no benchmark to deal with desires, errors will continue to be made and may even end up affecting people’s lives. In order to prevent such disasters, I think we need to set up a threshold limit against desires and regard them as decision making guidelines.

 On the other hand, desires are the driving force for humans to develop and organizations to grow bigger, so the threshold limit differs depending on one’s position and generations. The bottom line is to stay realistic.

 Ordinary people including myself suffer all the time. After the age of 60, I still suffer. In my case, I try to set up goals on various occasions in my private life in order to achieve those desires.

 I presume appetite is the easiest desire that you could control, out of appetite, cupidity, aphrodisia, and lust for publicity. There are numerous pursuable guidelines out there such as maintaining body types for women and countermeasures against metabolic syndromes for men. However, cupidity, aphrodisia, and lust for publicity are desires that are hard to control. These are simply based on individuals’ view of life and there seems to be no social barometer to refer to.

 Corporate executives earning extremely high income while their employees earning barely enough to survive is a good example of the above.

 In other words, drawing the line on desire is to “make oneself mentally prepared”. Don’t dither after making a decision. Don’t regret even if you face an unexpected result. I imagine that an enlightened world awaits from an accumulation of these efforts.

 I believe that you can enlighten yourself without Zen mediations or performing cold water ablutions by a fall.
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Masaru Sugaya

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