#6 Right Effort.
Vayama
Without effort nothing can be achieved.Mental energy is the force behind right effort.
The same energy that fuels desire, envy, aggression and violence can fuel self-discipline, honesty and loving kindness.
Right effort is detailed in four types of endeavours.
To prevent the arising of unwhholesome thoughts and mental states.
To abandon unwholesome thoughts and mental states that have already arisen.
To encourage wholesome states that have not yet arisen.
To maintain and improve wholesome states.
Loving compassion and joy is our natural state of being as humans, but we have, on the most part become tainted and distanced from this fact. To start looking inward and cleansing our inner world is the place to start.
