Bài giảng 12: Tinh tấn

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Diligence means effort. But that is an attempt that cannot be expressed by words. Only when we try to overcome difficulties to do the job do we understand.
For example, once in a while, when we are in difficulty, we try to do a fair job. That effort only we understand. Also using words to describe, to define concretely, we cannot do. However, we must understand that Effort, also known as Will, is a mental factor, not a physical element.
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We can confuse trying with stubbornness.

Stubborn people are those who try to maintain wrong opinions and wrong deeds even though they are reminded by others. This is also the type of people who try hard at work but their efforts are not called Tinh Tan. We rely on the purpose and the nature of the event to distinguish Diligence and stubbornness. If we have enlightened intelligence, we can choose the right path to go, choose a good thing to do, that is Diligence. On the contrary, lack of insight, choosing the wrong path to go, others commenting, reminding still not listening, that is stubborn, unresponsive, indifferent.
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This is a lecture on Psychology of Ethics (Lesson 12: Diligence) that teacher Chan Quang taught at the College of Buddhism in Long An province, session 2.

Although the lecture is taught by a monk in a Buddhist environment, the content is extremely practical for all those who wish to have a moral life, as well as a happy and happy life. real and sustainable. Therefore, the series of lectures on Psychological Ethics of Master Chan Quang has naturally become lessons not only for monastics or followers of Buddha.