Hello friends! There are some ancient Buddhist texts that describe how one should overcome sensual desire and more. You can find them if you search: "The Five Mental Hindrances and Their Conquest". For those who don't want to read the whole text, I will give a few paragraphs: "Six things are conducive to the abandonment of sensual desire: Learning how to meditate on impure objects; Devoting oneself to the meditation on the impure; Guarding the sense doors; Moderation in eating; Noble friendship; Suitable conversation. The loathsomeness of the body Herein, monks, a monk reflects on just this body, confined within the skin and full of manifold impurities from the soles upward and from the top of the hair down: "There is in this body: hair of the head, hair of the body, nails, teeth, skin, flesh, sinews, bones, marrow, kidneys, heart, liver, pleura, spleen, lungs, intestines, bowels, stomach, excrement, bile, phlegm, pus, blood, sweat, fat, tears, lymph, saliva, mucus, fluid of the joints, urine (and the brain in the skull)." By bones and sinews knit, With flesh and tissue smeared, And hidden by the skin, the body Does not appear as it really is... The fool thinks it beautiful, His ignorance misguiding him... Moderation in eating How is he moderate in eating? Herein a monk takes his food after wise consideration: not for the purpose of enjoyment, of pride, of beautifying the body or adorning it (with muscles); but only for the sake of maintaining and sustaining this body, to avoid harm and to support the holy life, thinking: "Thus I shall destroy the old painful feeling and shall not let a new one rise. Long life will be mine, blamelessness and well-being."
