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Diligence / Perseverance / Effort / Endurance

• Effort means to keep alert mind on guard. Make effort for sentient beings, even when tired. This is diligence.
• Practice often to make habit.
• Practice should be a delight, not a task.

• Diligence has two aspects - joy/delight and stability/continuity.

• Diligence antidotes laziness.
• Practice until enlightenment.
• We need effort that does not stop – to obtain liberation in one life.
• Bodhisattvas are diligent for others.
• Don’t develop arrogance.
• Milarepa is a symbol of forbearance on the path.