Samma Vayama, Right Effort, Right Zeal, Right Progress: 2 definitions
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Source: Buddhist Door: GlossaryRight zeal or progress, unintermitting perseverance, suppressing the rising of evil states and stimulating good states, and to perfect those which have come to beings.Source: Shambala Publications: GeneralRight Effort has four aspects. The first effort has to do with prevention: making an effort through meditation to ensure that one does not yield to unwholesome thoughts and emotions, and trying to prevent these from arising in the mind. Unwholesome thoughts originate in attachment, aversion, and ignorance. The second effort is to reduce the unwholesome thoughts and emotions that have already arisen in the mind. The third effort is to develop wholesome thoughts and emotions, and this also is done in meditation. Even if they are not yet present, we should make an effort to arouse them. The fourth effort is to cultivate further those wholesome thoughts and emotions that have already risen in the mind.
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Partial matches: Right, Progress, Effort, Vayama, Samma.
Full-text (+14): Eightfold Path, Samyagvyayama, Samyak-vyayama, Chandikata, Samyakpradhana, Magganga, Samyakprahana, Chandika, Samyakviyayamam, Viriya, Sammappadhana, Samadhiskandha, Avenikadharma, Avenika, Aryashtangamarga, Riddhipada, Cittasthiti, Samyagdrishti, Aryavamsha, Bodhipakkhiya-dhamma.
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Search found 86 books and stories containing Samma Vayama, Right effort, Right zeal, Right progress; (plurals include: Samma Vayamas, Right efforts, Right zeals, Right progresses). You can also click to the full overview containing English textual excerpts. Below are direct links for the most relevant articles:
Mental Development in Daily Life (by Nina van Gorkom)
Vipassana Meditation (by Chanmyay Sayadaw)
Part 7 - Realization Of The Noble Truths < [Chapter 1 - Happiness Through Right Understanding]
Part 4 - Sitting Meditation < [Appendix One]
The Four Noble Truths (by Ajahn Sumedho)
Introduction < [Chapter 4 - The Fourth Noble Truth]
Part 6 - Rationality And Emotion < [Chapter 4 - The Fourth Noble Truth]
Part 4 - Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration < [Chapter 4 - The Fourth Noble Truth]
The Buddha – The Everlasting < [April – June, 2007]
Turning the Wheel of Law < [July – September 1974]
Buddha in Bangkok < [July – September, 1994]
Vipassana Meditation Course (by Chanmyay Sayadaw)
Part 2 - The Noble Eight-fold Path < [Chapter 4 - Excercises In Mindfulness]
Part 3 - The Five Mental Factors < [Chapter 4 - Excercises In Mindfulness]
Conditions (by Nina van Gorkom)