Energy pave the way for success in all
and any project ...
Energy is thereby
instrumental for all the perfections!
Without
Energy no achievement
can ever be accomplished..
The proximate cause for
Energy is
a sense of urgency!
The characteristic of
Energy is
Striving, its function is
Effort, and the manifestation of
Energy
is
Endurance.
The Blessed Buddha
said about the perfection of Energy:
Get up! Sit up!
Of what use are your dreams ?
How can you sleep, when
mentally sick,
stabbed by the arrow of urge and craving.
Sutta Nipāta 331
Get up! Sit up!
Push on your training, until reaching
pure peace!
Don't let the king of death -Mara- see you sloppy and
thus delude and dominate you like a stringed puppet...
Sutta Nipāta 332
Possessed of
Energy
and
Endurance
be always
Earnest in your training.
The clever one is not satisfied before the
final
goal of ending all misery is completely achieved.
Theragatha 585
It is too cold, it's too hot, it's too early, it is too late!
Such bad excuses, makes one give up the training
and
miss one more precious opportunity to end suffering...
DN 31
This straight and Noble
Way has now been clearly
shown:
Don’t hesitate, walk forward and do not turn around.
Urge yourself to advance further by your own
Energy!
Only thus will you obviously approach
and attain
Nibbāna!
Theragatha 637
The efforts to prevent and to eliminate all evil.
The efforts
to develop and to maintain all good.
These are the 4 right
efforts, taught by the Buddha.
AN II 17
And what, friends, is feeding the
Energy Link to Enlightenment,
not yet arisen, & food too for boosting of any present
Energy ?
1: The element of initial initiative,
2: The element of
launching into action,
3: The element of
persistent endurance.
Systematic attention to these 3 aspects, is initiating your
Energy
and is boosting any Energy
that is already present .
Samyutta
Nikāya XLVI 51 Bojjhanga-samyutta
At such times, when the mind is Slow, Sluggish, and Heavy:
Then it is the
right occasion: for cultivating:
The Investigation-by-curiosity enlightenment-factor,
The
Energy-of-Enthusiasm enlightenment-factor,
The
Rapture-of-Joy enlightenment-factor...
Why is it so ? When the mind is slow, sluggish, and heavy,
it is
easily raised up by exactly these
3 mental qualities.
Suppose, friends, that a man wants a fire to blaze up,
and he put on dry grass, dry wood sticks and blow it
with dry hot air and do not cover it with any dust,
would that man then see his fire blaze up ?
Certainly So, Lord...
SN V, 46.
Bojjhanga-samyutta
When
Moggallana where sitting nodding in the jungle
night:
Well then, Moggallana, whatever experience you had in mind when
drowsiness demoralized you down, don't attend to that experience,
don't follow it. Remember instead the Dhamma, as you have heard &
memorized it, reflect on & examine it! Then raise up & repeat aloud
the details of Dhamma, as you have learnt it! Then pull both your
earlobes and rub your limbs with both your hands.! Then get up from
your seat, and after washing your eyes with cold water, look around
and upward in all directions and identify the major stars & planets!
Then attend to the experience of inner light, resolve on the clear
perception of daytime, by night as by day, and by day as by night!
By means of an
Awareness thus open, unhindered & vivid, develop the
bright mind. Its possible, that by doing this, you will shake off your
lethargy... But if by doing this you don't shake off your laziness,
then continually noting what is both in front and behind set of a
distance to meditate walking back and forth, your senses inwardly
settled, while your mind is not getting lost outwards. It is possible
that by doing this you will shake off all your mental sluggishness...
Anguttara Nikāya
VII 58
Born as the Brahmin Mahajanaka, the
Bodhisatta was once aboard
a sinking
ship
far from shore. All the crew were in great panic...!!!
The Bodhisatta though ate his belly full of sugar and ghee, oiled his
clothes
and swam continuously for 7 days towards the shore, until
he was rescued
by a guarding female devata. Later he remembered:
"Even far out at sea, where many men were lost, yet still unruffled
by worry
was my mind. I just kept swimming for seven days!
This was my ultimate perfection of
Energy."
Mahajanaka-Jataka
no. 539
SPREADING FAME
One who exerts effort,
One who is alert and always aware,
One who does good deeds voluntarily and deliberately,
One who is kind and considerate in all dealings,
One who is restrained and controlled,
One who lives according to the real truth of the Dhamma,
carefully and seriously,
the fame of such one always grows!
Dhammapada Illustration 24
Background Story 24
SAFETY
By arousing & inspiring oneself to
put forth energetic effort;
By meticulous carefulness; By well restrained self-control;
The wise and clever ones make themselves a
safe
island,
no flood or fever of desire can ever overwhelm!
Dhammapada Illustration 25
Background Story 25
More
on
Energy, Enthusiasm, and Eager Effort: (Viriya):
The_Definition_of_Energy,
The_Arising_of_Energy,
The_Chief_Hero,
Avoiding_Efforts,
Dual_Energy
Energy Viriya,
Feeding
Energy,
Energetic_Effort,
The_Ability_of_Energy,
The_Origin_of_Energy,
Power_of_Energy,
Ballanced_Energy,
Energy_as_Way_to_Force.
More
of the 10 mental perfections (paramis):
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/The_Ten_Perfections.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_10_mental_perfections_(parami)_in_three_levels.htm
