Buddha said that the Dharma all together should be an antidote for desire therefore it should be known as vinaya, which literally means “taming”… Desire is anything that causes us to look for something other than what we perceived normally. Normal perception here means just a simple business affair, seeing red, seeing green, seeing white, or drinking a hot cup of tea as opposed to anything that helps us to cure a pain, ease our loneliness, fulfill our desire, our passion, our aggression or whatever. So Vinaya means “taming” Therefore sitting practice is known as the practice of taming – taming ourselves.

From The First Dharma of Gampopa. Seminary transcripts Hinayana-Mahayana Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche 1981