Effort is always unanimous mindedly, continuing efforts towards a goal of perfection, nice, bright, joyful. Under normal circumstances, ie diligent effort, diligence. But the word has connotations diligently diligently, diligently to achieve a genuine good purpose, the purpose of liberation rather painstaking, diligent in no good purpose, narrow-minded, selfish. Students who pass the examination diligence study, to high officials, nobles, beautiful wife, enjoyed much fortune, so do not be called diligent. Lovesick guy, dedicated to doing things steadfastness blockbusters to be pleased lover, so are not diligent. People gambling, despite sitting ặc always two nights for two days, had severe head new LUN, still trying to hit a few more sit attentively games anymore, so no call is diligent.

Diligent nature of Buddhism is as follows:

Qualities of diligence

Diligent in Buddhism there are the nature and scope clearly, specifically as follows:

Effort not suppress evil sanh.- The remaining endemic evil in me, and I do not give them arises out. Such far have never steal, three times, gambling, drinking, then from now on, we must be diligent to preserve for her bad qualities never arises.

Effort to eradicate the evil has sanh.-As if I had missed create evil, thieves, lustful, alcohol etc ... we must diligently determined to give up, do not let them continue.

Diligently arises good works not yet sanh.- As ever, we do not help the poor, not to defend the weak, not to temple worship Buddha, now I determined to make these things .

Growth diligently do good works found sanh.- As far as I was helping the poor, did defend the weak, worshiping Buddha, cultivation of virtue, now we continue doing things nice job that much more.

In short, is diligent diligently, carefully, trying not to stop off in eradication work, stop the bad, evil, and do arise, the growth of beauty, goodness, with the ultimate goal is the full liberation.

Diligent's performance

Effort is a strong motivation drives us forward quickly on good roads. No diligent no matter how much we have wisely, have mercy, how much virtue, have planned many successful programs, we do not do anything with our lives and benefit society. Diligent as gasoline in a car engine. Machine good though, despite good driver, but no gasoline, car remained inactive one place.

The great man, the savior, the list forever save by always diligent, with a mighty willpower and determination helped lifetime. Failure to make them discouraged. Obstacles do not make them discouraged. Through diligence, they won it all, from external to internal, invited to respond diligently, they have achieved good aspiration, the noblest of humanity and uphold exemplary general soi for posterity.

A Western philosopher said: "This world belongs to those who have the will and courage". Effort is the iron will and determination of those who want to reach the Buddha's position.

The practice can not be diligent is like who want to pass large pool that no boats. How many valuable qualities have raised in this booklet: compassion, wisdom, Binh-class, Loi tha ... will become mere voices, no effect at all, if a lack of diligence. So finally advised of Shakyamuni Buddha with his disciples, before I leave this world to Nirvana is:

'O disciple! Be diligent up to be liberated ".

Diligent mirror of the Buddha Sakyamuni

If in this life there is a brilliant example of diligence, the most noble, it is the mirror of the Buddha diligently Shakyamuni

With great desire and farthest high that no one has ever thought of life is self-liberation from rebirth, and find his way to liberation for all sentient beings, with the desire that the Buddha Diamond decided forsaken palace, leaving in darkness. Throne, electricity jade, his wife and child, need not detain him again; high, dangerous holes, the army failed to prevent his progress; dark paint and coke, natural forest His authoritarian states do not be discouraged; thundery storms, sun and rain, hunger and cold do not deter him. Once gone, he never looked back past to regret quiet fun. His path is in front, is high above, always have to look up, stepped forward. Achieving this goal, he continued toward other purposes, always leave after his passing moves were never returned. Every step is a step forward. Religion has not found the time, he was determined to find for the Act. Once you find the Tao, he is determined to lead the beings that Path. Self-awareness and sense of forgiveness, and pursued him until the sale of ever feeling happy fulfillment: that the work was accomplished through diligent.

Has anyone had a mighty as He wills: find religion to forget about eating, sleeping, died on hunger in the forest?

Has anyone say something fierce, energetic as his steel "Act Without effective evidence, whether meat bone crushing tan, we decided not to leave this seat."?

Does anyone have 49 days meditating under the Bodhi between jungle u president, but not a minute move?

No! No one other than the Buddha Sakyamuni

Mirror painstaking effort that cause energy to be much good influence precious for life, and especially his disciples: Patriarch Scoring nine years meditating ghost faces on the wall does not say; He the God of Light, standing French demand for snow that flooded to knee; Xuanzang reached several hundred thousand miles in snow and sunshine price from China to AᮠDo fire to Buddhist scriptures ...

It is the example of diligence, courage, patience, has caused us encouragement in our hearts and makes us even more excited and determined on the Path.

V.- Buddhists to cultivate how diligent nature in our daily lives?

First want to cultivate diligently nature to have the results, we must be wary of the latter case:

Nature eager to win, is a bad nature may impede a lot of work of our diligent cultivation. There are many people eager to win because nature wants to show a more virtuous person should want to do great things monstrous; the strength of their talent is limited, so even if you try, how much effort is futile:

"East Sea white sand car,

Hard heart that the officer should not do! "

For example, there are new guys set wade, swim hear people Truth through wide river also accepted that challenge. He Despite trying to bring all of her strength to swim has not escaped drowning accident in the middle of the river.

The second thing to be wary of is the hasty temper, want quick results. Anything, something also needs a time to grow, mature. We forget this truth, then do not do anything with the end result. Getting young seedlings to flowering to seed by removing lots of fertilizer, irrigate with plenty of water, aluminum root it up, pull it out so long leaf ... how much meticulous care was only brought to a disastrous outcome is made it rapidly dying stillborn. Novices read that sought the wisdom of philosophy to read, whether incidents of lice, brooded night and day, not to leave the book, finally can not understand anything, and had depressed discouraged. People want to eliminate at once all his bad qualities, no stealing, prostitution, alcoholism, bragging, patient-friendly ... he also is like a child in a high minute improvisation, except for forest-determination all beasts, or a lonely soldier broke into the enemy during combat. Those who, despite spirited how much effort has not escaped death awaits them.

So want the diligent good results, need to work methodically, to exclude nature eager to win, irascible hurry, not greedy two girls. We can set lofty purpose, but please sequential process, this step until all other steps; go from near to far, from low to high, from easy to difficult. Let's move on a regular basis, do not have to run very fast, and sometimes just sit to breathe, or lying down are not too tired to get up again!

In the work to eradicate the evil nature and nurture good character, to go down to the purpose of liberation, is to arrange a long-term program: one must look to all the enemies of the people is nothing bad qualities, counting them out for clarity; Comrades we again find in it what is the good nature, without reinforcements must be on the outside in; Then we sequentially open the front, eliminating the enemy to another enemy (bad character), do not give them links, gathered together, so that they will create a strong opposition force, hard kill except. Whenever an evil nature are excluded, we change into an opposite nature friendly, and so on until it is no longer an evil nature in me anymore, but full of good qualities.

Let us listen respectfully Gautama the Buddha taught: "Let diligent efforts add up forever, to achieve some noble purpose have not been achieved, to master the permits have not yet mastered, to perform out what qualities we have not done. Diligent diligent ton, not what is difficult. Drops of water flowing is small, but often also penetrate the stone. If the religion teacher, but also lazy mind, lazy late , the most difficult of attainment, such as fire puncher trees, tree hot no puncher but stopped again, then how can there be fire? That is why the teacher to put forth effort. "

If we do things as Buddha taught, is our diligent care of Buddha nature that we have available, at the potential in our state. END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTMENT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=THE EIGTHFOLD PATH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.15/5/2015.