Enthusiasm & Discipline
June 23rd, 2008 | Teachings |It is quite good to have enthusiasm in your practice, but my friends, you must have discipline as well. Enthusiasm will only take you so far. After a time, the enthusiasm wears off. The novelty is gone. The exciting has become the mundane.
Once a famous football coach said that enthusiasm is great, but when the game starts, you had better have some players who can play well. The same is true about our practice. When the fun of something new wears off, you had better have the discipline to stay with it, through thick and thin.
How does one build discipline? Perhaps by asking yourself if sitting in front of that television or sitting on that barstool is going to end samsara? Are the material things ending your suffering? Is the illusionary world you dwell in bringing you peace? If you answer no, then that should be enough to build and maintain discipline.
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Tress are naked in the winter and this is when they are pruned. No tree except a dead one remains naked.
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Michellino