Energizing Daily Practice: The Four Forces (2020)

12-6-20

In this talk at the Tampa Center, Dharma teacher Fred Eppsteiner teaches us the Four Forces found in Shantideva's Way of the Bodhisattva's chapter on Diligence in order to energize our daily practice.

"... it is through the four forces of aspiration (a keen interest in the Dharma), self-confidence or steadfastness (whereby one does not go back on what one has begun), joyfulness (whereby one takes pleasure in what one is doing), and relinquishment (when this is called for), that we will be able to discard the three kinds of laziness and enhance our diligence. These four forces must in turn be supplemented by two kinds of strength: first, the earnest implementation of the principle of adopting and rejecting and, second, the control of one's body and mind."

~Kunzang Pelden's "The Nectar of Manjushri's Speech"