Energy means enthusiasm, effort, exertion,
and interest! Energy means eagerness, endeavor, initiative, and intensity! Energy means action, force, power, drive,
and hyper keenness! Energy
means devotion, dedication, determination, and commitment! Energy means enjoyment
:-)
Energy pave the way for success in all,
and any project ... Energy is thereby
instrumental for all mental 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
and Keenin 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, keep walking 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 2 efforts to prevent and to eliminate all evil. The
2
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, and 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
The Buddha to Moggallana, who 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 and memorized it, reflect on, and re-examine it! Then raise up
and 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, and
all the 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,
and vivid, develop the
bright mind. Its possible, that by doing
all 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
A 1 WEEK SWIM!
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-Jātaka
no. 539
SPREADING FAME One who exerts effort, One who is
always
alert, and aware, One who is restrained, and controlled,
One who is kind, and considerate in all dealings,
One who does good deeds voluntarily, and deliberately, One who lives according to the real truth of the Dhamma, carefully and
genuinely,
the fame of such one always grows! Dhammapada Illustration 24Background Story 24
SAFETY By arousing and 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 25Background Story 25
