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  2. A Producer Mentality
     … One of the big steps is effort, just as desire is followed by persistence in the four bases for success, and conviction is followed by persistence in the five faculties and the five strengths. So the trick, as the Buddha said, is learning to make yourself want to do the things that you may not like doing but you know will give long-term … 
  3. Character
     … The kind of person you are comes into the question of how well you do this, the energy you put into it, along with the persistence, the dedication, and the truthfulness—all of which are qualities called perfections. These are qualities we develop not only in meditation, but also in daily life. In fact, the way we develop them in daily life will spill … 
  4. Persistence
     … I want to do everything needed to work toward it.” When Ajaan Lee talks about the different factors that go into the practice of mindfulness, one of them is ardency, atappa, which is basically the same thing as persistence and effort. And for him, ardency is the insight factor in mindfulness practice. The Commentary, though, identifies *sampajañña *as the insight factor. People who follow … 
  5. Persistence: Lift Your Heart
     … This is an important element of having strong persistence, or persistence as a strength. You have to delight in abandoning unskillful qualities, and delight in developing skillful ones. That’s one of the traditions of the noble ones. You don’t just grit your teeth. You try to figure out ways of making it enjoyable. Find joy in the effort. It’s part of … 
  6. What You Bring to the Meditation
     … That requires persistence. That’s the second of what the Buddha calls the four bases of success, or the four bases of power. Here we’re talking about the power of your concentration and success in your concentration. Desire is the first; persistence is the second. The Pali word for persistence here, viriya, can also mean energy. You really put your effort into it … 
  7. Ready to Evacuate
     … The four qualities that go with discernment, that support it, are conviction, persistence, mindfulness, and concentration. Conviction here is the conviction that your actions really do matter and that you do have the ability to take this principle of action, which explains why we suffer, and you can learn how to master it so that you don’t have to suffer. Even though you … 
  8. A Sense of Yourself
     … The persistence and the determination, the truthfulness, endurance: all the Capricorn virtues we all wish we had automatically and we don’t want to work on. Someone once asked Ajaan Maha Boowa what’s the easy way to develop more persistence. He said, “Well, that’s a lazy person’s question right there.” You develop more persistence by not being lazy and by putting … 
  9. Born for the Perfections
     … generosity or giving, virtue, renunciation, discernment, persistence, endurance, truth, determination, goodwill, and equanimity. The list doesn’t have a progressive nature, which is why I like to discuss it under the headings of determination. There are four qualities that go into determination, and the different *paramis *can fit neatly under the four qualities. The first determination is discernment. That includes the perfection of discernment … 
  10. Inner Refuge Through Inner Strength
     … This means that persistence is not just chipping away, chipping away. It’s also giving yourself the juice you need to keep going: that you’re doing it because it’s good and you want to do it. And then, building on this persistence, you develop the other three strengths, beginning with mindfulness: the ability to keep something in mind. In this case, you … 
  11. Capable
     … Sometimes, as a meditator, you’re twisting the cow’s horn and you think, “Maybe I’m not twisting hard enough, or long enough, or with enough force.” That kind of persistence is not right* *persistence. It’s blind. You want the kind of persistence that says, “Maybe I’m doing something wrong here. What else could I do instead?” In the case of … 
  12. A Small, Steady Flame
     … When they talk about putting an effort into the meditation, the word for “effort” really means persistence. It’s this stick-to-it-tived-ness that’s going to make all the difference. The continuity of your focus, the steadiness of your persistence: Those are the qualities that make the breath a solid foundation for the mind. One of the problems in teaching meditation … 
  13. Solidly Established
     … The third quality we develop is persistence. In other words, you really stick with it. This means that as soon as you catch the mind wandering off, you bring it right back. You don’t tell yourself, “Hey, you’ve got a whole hour. You can think about all kinds of things,” and then let the mind wander off as it likes. That doesn … 
  14. The Strength of Conviction
     … You won’t use the ingenuity you need to get it to settle down, and you won’t apply the persistence. This is why it’s important that you develop this sense of conviction: There* is* a way out. The mind can be trained. The energy you put into the meditation is not wasted. That conviction leads to the second strength, which is persistence … 
  15. Tuning Your Lute
     … In the same way,” the Buddha continued, “you take your faculty of persistence and you tune it to what you’re capable of doing, and then you tune the other faculties to that—the faculties of conviction, mindfulness, concentration, discernment. Then you pick up the theme of your meditation and work with it, the same way that a person playing a lute would pick … 
  16. Skills for Awakening
     … This is where analysis of qualities moves into persistence. You’ve got to keep at it and keep at it. You can’t be mindful and alert and concentrated just for a few moments and then start thinking about other things, hoping that your hands will be able to do things on their own. You’ve got to be right there on top of … 
  17. Pro-self, Pro-help
     … They start with conviction; then there’s persistence, mindfulness, concentration, and discernment. Discernment comes at the end. But as the Buddha says, to develop any of these requires heedfulness, which contains an element of discernment there already: the realization again that your actions make a difference and you’ve got to be careful. Building on that realization, you start with conviction. You don’t … 
  18. Succeeding at Happiness
     … The four bases of success are desire, persistence, intent, and analysis. The analysis corresponds to the reflection and the other three bases correspond to the commitment. To begin with, you have to want to commit yourself to developing merit. You have to want to be generous. Tell yourself: Something good is going to come from this. The Buddha said this attitude is an important … 
  19. Developing Discernment
     … the strength of conviction, strength of persistence, strength of mindfulness, strength of concentration, and strength of discernment. And he explains them in such a way to show that the first four lead to the fifth. So if you’re looking into ways for how to develop discernment, look at how to develop conviction, persistence, mindfulness, and concentration. How do these things contribute to giving … 
  20. Persistence
     … When the Buddha defines right effort, or the quality of persistence in the path as one of the bases for success, it includes generating desire—in other words, learning to want to do what you’re doing here, to be enthusiastic about it. Think about it: You’ve got a whole hour just to learn how to center the mind. It’s rare that … 
  21. Persistence
    In the list of the factors for awakening, persistence—vīrya—comes after the wisdom faculty, analysis of qualities. What this means is that we’re not talking about brute effort. We’re talking about effort informed by wisdom. And there are four major ways in which it’s informed. You start out by understanding what’s skillful and what’s not. Anything that comes … 
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