Friends:
What
is Feeding the Energy Link to Awakening!
The Blessed Buddha once said:
Bhikkhus, just as this body, is sustained by feeding, exists in
dependence on feeding
and cannot survive without food, exactly & even so are the
Seven Links to Awakening
also sustained by feeding, they can also only exist in dependence on
feeding and they
cannot survive without feeding... And what, bhikkhus, is the feeding of
the emergence
of any yet unarisen Energy Link to
Awakening and feeding of the very completion by
advance of any already arisen Energy Link to
Awakening? There are these 3 elements
of:
Initiative, Launching into effort and
Endurance ...Frequently giving
careful and rational attention to them, is feeding the arising of
any
unarisen Energy Link to Awakening and
also feeding of the gradual fulfillment of any
already arisen Energy Link to
Awakening... And what, Bhikkhus, is the starving that
obstructs the emergence of any yet unarisen Energy Link to Awakening & which also
hinders any already arisen Energy
Link from reaching any fulfillment by deliberate
development? There are these three elements of:
Initiative, Launching and
Endurance ...
Not giving frequent,
careful and rational attention to them; not considering them
much
and often; is the starving that prevents any unarisen Energy Link to Awakening from
arising and also blocks any already arisen Energy Link to Awakening from reaching any
complete
fulfilment by mental training and development...
Comments from the
classical commentaries:
Enthusiastic and eager
exertion is the characteristic of the Energy
Link to Awakening
(Viriya-sambojjhanga). Effort producing advantage is the
purpose of the Energy quality.
Activity overcoming mental slack is the manifestation of this
Energy Link to Awakening.
While
too lazy to do what should be done simply ask yourself: What is
missing here???Is it the element of
mental initiative wishing to get up that is missing here now, or is
it
the element of actual bodily launching into effort that is missing here
now, or is it the
element of endurance, persistence, perseverance and stamina that is
missing here now?
This discrimination - in itself - has the capacity to gradually stir up
and induce energy!
Further conditions
helpful for the emergence of the Energy Link
to Awakening are:
1: Reflection on the
long-term dangers of inactivity such as hell...
2:
Reviewing the benefits to be gained by energetic praxis.
3: Remembering that
no journey can ever be ended by a lazy one.
4: Giving credit to the good givers of the alms-food received.
5: Honouring the Greatness of the prior effort of the Master.
6: Honouring the Greatness of the prior effort of the
Lineage.
7: Removing laxity
by perceiving light, change posture & open air.
8: Avoidance of
slack, lazy, sluggish, negligent & careless people.
9: Friendship with enthusiastic, energetic and persistent
people.
10: Reviewing the Four
Right Efforts often and systematically.
11: Commitment &
resolute determination to arouse more energy...
There is bodily energy and there is mental energy! Both are a crucial for all
progress
towards any advantageous state. Awakening is Waking Up from sloth &
daydreaming!
Energy
is the Fifth Mental Perfection:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Enthusiastic_is_Energy.htm
Curing Laziness and
lethargy:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Curing_Lethargy_and_Laziness.htm
Get Moving
Right Now:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Arousal_Get_Up_and_Going.htm
Sources
(edited extracts):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha.
Samyutta Nikāya.
Book [V: 65-6+102-8] 46: Links.
2+51: Group & Nutriments....
For
a full Study on Energy (Viriya): The root Hero of all
Success:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Definition_of_Energy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Arising_of_Energy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Ability_of_Energy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Origin_of_Energy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Enthusiastic_is_Energy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Power_of_Energy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Ballanced_Energy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/The_Chief_Hero.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Energetic_Effort.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Avoiding_Effort.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Feeding_Energy.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Energy_Viriya.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Dual_Energy.htm
   
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