The Confucian "seven emotions" refer to joy, anger, worry, fear, love, hate and lust.
The seven emotions in TCM theory refer to joy, anger, worry, thinking, sadness, fear and surprise.
Gao You, a philosopher in the Eastern Han Dynasty, commented on six desires: life, death, ears, eyes, mouth and nose.
Six desires refer to human physiological needs or desires. People should live, be afraid of death, and live with flavor and color, so they should eat with their mouths, taste with their tongues, see with their eyes, hear with their ears and smell with their noses. These desires are innate and can be learned without teaching. Later, some people summarized this as "seeing desire, listening desire, fragrant desire, taste desire, touching desire and desire".
However, the Buddhist theory of great wisdom is far from this. It holds that the six desires refer to lust, appearance, dignity and posture, speech and voice, smoothness and human desire. There is another saying: seven emotions of secular desires: happiness, anger, sorrow, joy, love, evil and desire. Six desires: eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind. Buddhism believes that the six senses of eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind produce six emotions: color, sound, fragrance, taste, touch and law. The seven emotions, namely joy, anger, sorrow, joy, love, evil and desire for Buddha, refer to the seven emotions that ordinary people have: joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, evil and desire for Buddha. The six desires recorded in the second volume of Great Wisdom refer to the six desires of ordinary people to the opposite sex: lust, appearance, dignity, voice, smoothness and humanity; Or refers to the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind. The word' secular desire' is still used today, which is the' six desires' in the free translation of Buddhist scriptures, generally referring to people's emotions and desires. What are the seven emotions? Book of rites? Liu Yun said: "Happiness, anger, sadness, fear, love, evil and desire can all be learned." It can be seen that emotion is an emotional expression or psychological activity of emotion, and desire is one of the seven emotions. Strangely, the "seven emotions" of Buddhism are almost the same as those of Confucianism. They all refer to the seven emotions of "happiness, anger, worry, fear, love, hate and desire" and put desire at the end of the seven emotions. The theory of traditional Chinese medicine has changed slightly. Seven emotions refer to seven emotions: joy, anger, worry, thinking, sadness, fear and surprise. Excessive excitement of these seven emotions may lead to imbalance of yin and yang and stagnation of qi and blood, which may lead to various diseases. It is thought-provoking that Chinese medicine does not include "desire" in the seven emotions. So, what are the six desires? "Lu Chunqiu? Gui Sheng first put forward the concept of six desires: "The so-called whole-born person has all six desires. "So what exactly are the six desires? Gao You, a philosopher in the Eastern Han Dynasty, commented on this: "Six desires, life, death, ears, eyes, mouth and nose. "Visible, six desires refers to people's physiological needs or desires. People should live, be afraid of death, and live with flavor and color, so they should eat with their mouths, taste with their tongues, see with their eyes, hear with their ears and smell with their noses. These desires are innate and can be learned without teaching. Later, some people summarized this as "seeing desire, listening desire, fragrant desire, taste desire, touching desire and desire". However, the Buddhist theory of great wisdom is far from it. It holds that the six desires refer to lust, appearance, dignity and posture, speech and sound, fluency and human desire. Basically, the six desires are defined as the six natural desires of laymen for the opposite sex, which is what modern people often say. Modern people seem to prefer to refer to "secular desires" in general, without distinguishing them specifically. There is a popular song called "secular desire". I can't remember the lyrics clearly, but a few words are very impressive. They said, "I am drunk, but it hurts more when I am awake." I don't want you to stop crying when I spend a period of time with you suffering from worldly desires/I don't want you to stop/worldly desires are overturned/laughing and crying and thinking about yourself ... "Although the singer in" Secular Desire "didn't make it clear, he actually became a modern youth. Speaking of which, love and desire seem to have been unified. In other words, love and desire are inseparable. Where can there be desire without love? Where can I get love without wanting or asking? No love, no desire, six clean, four empty, no fireworks, no affection, no joys and sorrows. Such people are either nuns, monks, immortals or ghosts. From this point of view, secular desire is the basic physiological requirement and psychological motivation of human beings, the foundation of human nature, everyone's nature and the most basic color of human life. But people are different, and the manifestations of secular desires are varied. As the saying goes, everyone has worldly desires, and there are great differences. Because of this, how to express people's secular desires has become an inexhaustible source of literary and artistic creation and a colorful topic.