First of all, we have to restore the natural attributes of human beings to answer.
Man is an animal first, but he is more advanced than other animals. Humans first came down from trees, but at that time they were monkeys. When they came down, they brought some leaves down to cover their private parts. Therefore, to examine why people are alive, we must first examine why people are alive when they are monkeys.
In fact, we are not completely clear about this question, just like you ask why chickens are alive. Is it just to enjoy the feed fed by the owner and then take a leisurely walk and sleep? In other words, does it want to enjoy life? So, why do hens lay eggs to hatch chicks? Maybe the hen did this out of instinct and continued her offspring. We come to the first conclusion that animals need to continue their lives in some way in order to survive.
But what about the cock? Why does the rooster crow on time every day? Not very easy to understand! ! Is this another instinct formed by roosters living with humans for a long time? To please the host and live a better life? Well, I just found the answer, saying that the ancestors of roosters have long had the habit of going out for food before dawn to find a spouse, and over time they formed the instinct of crowing in the early morning. So we come to the second conclusion that animals can stimulate the production of body functions in order to survive.
Perhaps it is not enough for us to analyze the example of poultry, because poultry has been disturbed by human society. Ok, let's eliminate human interference and find a wild animal like mantis to analyze. Mantis also lives to enjoy life and continue future generations! But we all know that female mantis will eat male mantis after mating. Why? If it doesn't do this, can't it continue its descendants? It doesn't make sense! Hehe, I just found the answer. Female mantis eats male mantis, one is to stimulate male mantis to ejaculate, to ensure that semen is continuously injected into his body, so that the eggs in his body are fully fertilized, and the other is to obtain rich nutrition to lay eggs. Look, it's still for future generations. But from this example, we get the third conclusion that animals can produce primitive violence by any means in order to survive.
Ok, let's analyze these three points. Can the above three conclusions be confirmed from humans? The answer is obvious, not only yes, but also more things can be found. In order to survive, human beings have learned more skills, their body functions have evolved to be more suitable for survival, and their nature has become more ferocious! In the aspect of carrying on the family line, human beings are crazier, find stronger spouses, kill weak offspring and commit genocide! The ability of human beings to treat diseases has gradually improved.
Therefore, starting from the natural attributes of human beings, we come to the conclusion that human beings, like animals, live for their own survival in the world and for the continuation of future generations! To put it bluntly, living is animal instinct! On the other hand, human beings, like animals, can do whatever it takes to survive, which is also the instinct of animals! From this perspective, there is nothing wrong with the saying that human nature is evil!
Second, we should answer from the social attributes of human beings.
The essential difference between human beings and other animals is to make and use tools, so as to build human society and survive in human society. Based on human nature, people should try their best to live and do whatever it takes to live. This is the basic thing. Of course, if the right to subsistence is satisfied, then there is the right to development, as well as all other rights, such as democracy, freedom and so on. Why do people work hard to earn money, or work hard to earn money or kill people and set fires? These are all very primitive things. Why people want to get married and have children is still an animal instinct, but with the addition of social factors, it becomes much more complicated, such as rape, sexual satisfaction and venting hatred. For example, buying a house and a car is for better survival and development, for example, participating in a community activity is for development and freedom rights, …
But another characteristic of human society different from the animal kingdom is that human beings know education. Through education, suppress the evil side of those animal attributes and cultivate the good side of social attributes.
According to the Buddhist theory of karma, if a person does all the bad things when he is alive, he may eventually hurt his offspring, that is to say, if he wants to continue his offspring in animal attributes, it cannot be achieved well. On the other hand, this person doesn't know this layer. If he does all kinds of bad things, it goes against his animal nature. So, if you ask him why he lives, he will definitely say, "For enjoyment, for money, for fame and status ..." He can't see the real purpose of his life. He lost himself-that's why most people don't know why they are alive.
To say that people live for ideals is just an excuse for people to strive for more rights and satisfy more desires. At the same time, this is also the result of human self-education-to stimulate your impulse to live better with good wishes. When a person says that he lives a meaningful and valuable life, it means that he lives well.
Let's discuss another problem. A condemned man knows that his life will be over soon. At this time, he had no right to pursue and no material enjoyment, but he didn't want to die immediately. Why? At this point, his life is purely instinctive. He wants to live, and he wants to cherish every day of his life. When he is executed, he will say in his heart: it's good to be alive!
To sum up, why human beings live can be said to be for money, reputation, status, family, enjoyment of life, pursuit of ideals ... But this is not a reason to live, but a way to live, or to solve the problem of "how to live better". The real reason to live is: to live! ! !