Energy means enthusiasm
Energy means effort
Energy means exertion
Energy means interest
Energy means endeavour
Energy means eagerness
Energy means initiative
Energy means intensity
Energy means action
Energy means force
Energy means power
Energy means keenness
Energy means devotion
Energy means dedication
Energy means determination
Energy means commitment
Energy means enjoyment
Energy pave the way for success in all & any project ...
Energy is thereby instrumental for all the perfections.
Without energy can no achievement ever be accomplished.
The proximate cause for energy is a sense of urgency !!!
The characteristic of energy is striving, it's function is
effort, and the manifestation of energy is endurance.
Get up! Sit up!
Of what use are your dreams ?
How can you sleep, when sick,
stabbed by the arrow of craving.
Sutta Nipata 331
Get up! Sit up!
Push on your training, until reaching sole peace!
Do not let the king of death see you sloppy and
thus delude & dominate you like a toy doll...
Sutta Nipata 332
Possessed of Energy & Endurance
be always earnest in your training.
The clever One is not satisfied before the
goal of ending all misery, is wholly achieved.
Theragatha 585
It is too cold, it is too hot...,
It is too early, it is too late!
Such bad excuses, make one
give up the training & miss one
more precious opportunity...
DN 31
This straight Way has now been clearly shown:
Don’t hesitate, walk forward & do not turn around.
Urge yourself to advance further by your own Energy,
only thus will you obviously approach & attain Nibbana!
Theragatha 637
The effort to prevent & to eliminate evil,
to develop & to maintain 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, & food too for boosting of the present Energy ?
The element of initiative,
The element of exertion,
The element of endurance.
Systematic attention to these, is feeding the yet unarisen Energy
Link to Awakening, & food too for boosting any present Energy.
Samyutta Nikaya XLVI 51 Bojjhanga-samyutta
At such times, friends,
when the mind is Slow, Sluggish, and Heavy:
Then it is the Right Occasion: for cultivating the
Investigation-by-curiosity enlightenment-factor,
for cultivating the Energy-of-Enthusiasm enlightenment-factor,
for cultivating 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 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
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 &
memorized it, reflect on & examine it! Then raise up & 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
& upward in all directions and identify the major stars & 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 & vivid, develop
the
bright mind. It's possible, that by doing 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 & behind set of a
distance to
meditate walking back & forth, your senses inwardly settled, while
your mind is not getting lost outwards. It is possible that by
doing this
you will finally shake off your sluggishness.
Anguttara Nikaya VII 58
Born as the Brahmin Mahajanaka, the Bodhisatta was once,
aboard a ship sinking far from shore. All the crew were
in great panic...!!! The Bodhisatta though ate his belly full
of sugar & ghee, oiled his clothes and swam continuously
for 7 days towards the shore, until he was rescued by an
ocean guarding female devata. Later he remembered:
"Even far out at sea, where many men were lost,
yet still unruffled by worry was my mind.
This was my
perfection
of Energy."
Mahajanaka-Jataka no. 539