#right effort

[silent-mindfulness]

[ypnhot]

It's been a while, but I made another thing. The four right strivings or the four right efforts.

  1. Restraint or preventing yourself from starting unwholesome behaviors

2. Abandonment or stopping unwholesome behaviors that you've already started

3. Development or starting new wholesome behaviors

4. Protection or cultivating your wholesome behaviors

[wishfulmanifestations]

What is Dharma & what does it signify?

Remember these Four Noble Truths:

1. Anguish is everywhere.

2. We desire permanent existence of ourselves and for our loved ones, and we desire to prove ourselves independent of others and superior to them. These desires conflict with the way things are: nothing abides, and everything and everyone depends upon everything and everyone else. This conflict causes our anguish, and we project this anguish on those we meet.

3. Release from anguish comes with the personal acknowledgment and resolve: we are here together very briefly, so let us accept reality fully and take care of one another while we can.

4. This acknowledgement and resolve are realized by following the Eight fold Path: Right Views, Right Thinking, Right Speech, Right Conduct, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Recollection, and Right Meditation. Here "Right" means "correct" or "accurate" -- in keeping with the reality of impermanence and interdependence.”

[wishfulmanifestations]

“You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.”

- C.S. Lewis

[jakeberabbit]

Zen Check 2022: Samadhi

Let's take a hard look at the state of my mental discipline at the beginning of the year. I'll try hard not to flinch.

I like to set my intention through this first week of 2022 by reviewing my understanding of the Noble Eightfold Path, being a Zen Buddhist and all. On Monday I went over the first of the Threefold Division, sila (or ethics). That blog post was unforgivably dry reading it over — sorry about that. I’m still nervous about writing words that other people see, so I’m a little rusty. Today, let’s talk…

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[luminescentwind]

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 Right effort. To prevent unwholesome states before they arise, to end unwholesome states when they have arisen, to develop wholesome states and to strengthen the wholesome states that have already arisen within us.

It doesn’t seem so difficult when you read it, but it requires a great deal of concentration and constant self-awareness.

During the day we think about a million different things. I personally tend to think about the future, almost constantly. But over the years I’ve realised that most of my fears regarding what could be were completely baseless. The worst case scenario is so, so unrealistic. When you start thinking about how things could really go down, even if everything goes wrong it won’t be as bad as what you had imagined.

I also tend to think a lot about others’ success, comparing their path to mine. This creates resentment and jealousy. I need to make a conscious effort to celebrate other people’s happiness, and to understand that their well-being doesn’t affect mine. I once read a really nice metaphor, it goes something like ‘A candle doesn’t lose its flame by lighting another candle’. This is a very kind way of thinking when it comes to celebrating others. It also strips away the fear that prevents some of us from sharing good things with others. At first we may feel intimidated or sad when we look at other people’s lives because we think we aren’t so worthy, but that’s simply not the case. I often have to repeat myself that everyone has the same inherent value, from the tiniest insect to the most intelligent human.

Existence is not a competition. Dismantling our own learned competitiveness can help us end many unwholesome states at the same time we develop wholesome ones. It’s a matter of practice.

[cattaribrahmavihara]

“What blows do athletes receive on their faces and all over their bodies! Nevertheless, through their desire for fame they endure every torture, and they undergo these things not only because they are fighting but in order to be able to fight. Their very training means torture. So let us also win the way to victory in all our struggles – for the reward is not a garland or a palm or a trumpeter…

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[mandalaslife-blog]

Sixth Step – Right Effort What is Right Effort? There are Four Great Efforts: the effort to avoid, the effort to overcome, the effort to develop, and the effort to maintain.