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The Pillar of Diligence
Diligence
By Stephen Lau
By Stephen Lau
Diligence is effort, enthusiasm, and energy to bring about a change in thoughts and attitudes to the art of living well.
Diligence is one of the seven virtues of healthy living.
Diligence is one of the seven virtues of healthy living.
Diligence is the first pillar to uphold the premise of natural healing for health rejuvenation.
There is an Oriental maxim: “Sloth brings no heath.” Do you ever find a lazy person healthy? Laziness is a disease - a disease of the mind and hence the body. Man is destined to toil. Laziness does not bring about any natural healing.
Good health is a gift from Heaven. However, to receive that gift you need to appreciate it with recognition. In other words, you will have earn through diligence, not sloth.
What is diligence?
Diligence is effort, enthusiasm, and energy to attain the goal of transforming the self with a change of thoughts and attitudes to make the choice of right action. A healthy lifestyle is built on diligence - how you look at your health and how hard you try to improve it.
Confucius: The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Essentially, a healthy lifestyle is built on your attitudes to healthy living.
You have to be aware of your own health conditions. No one is a better physician than yourself because only you know how healthy you are. Remember, good health is not simply an absence of disease, and wellness has to be wholesome.
Make a decision to change if needs be. If you keep on doing what you have been doing all your life, you will continue to be what you have been for the rest of your life.
Change now whatever that needs to be changed. Time is of essence. Do it now.
While knowing what is good for you is one thing, doing it is another. This is where diligence comes in.
According to diligence in Buddhism, you must display effort in your pursuit of the good. It requires active bodily and mental strength to improve the self for individual enlightenment. Diligence is the sustained energy to maintain enthusiasm on your spiritual journey of love and kindness to other individuals. Diligence is inspired by the deep compassion to help others as well as oneself for active, healthy, and balanced growth.
With compassion acquired through diligence, you will experience intuitive knowing, which is the essence of Buddhist human wisdom. It cannot be taught, but only experienced through enlightenment. This profound wisdom opens the door to natural healing for health rejuvenation.
Diligence is one of the seven virtues of healthy living for natural healing: chastity, abstinence, liberality, diligence, patience, modesty, and humility.
Chastity embraces moral wholesomeness, thereby achieving purity of thought through continuing education and betterment for self discovery. Good health includes not just physical health, but also mental and spiritual health. Natural healing of any disease would not be complete without wholesome mental and spiritual health maintained and sustained through chastity.
Abstinence is constant mindfulness of others and your surroundings; practicing self-control, abstention, and moderation. The Chinese wisdom of the “golden mean” (no extremity in everything) speaks volumes of the importance of abstinence or self-control in everyday living.
Liberality, as opposed to greed, is generosity - a willingness to give through a nobility of thought or actions. Mother Teresa says, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” That says everything about liberality.
Patience is forbearance and endurance through moderation. Resolving conflicts with others, more importantly with yourself, peacefully, as opposed to resorting to anger and grudges (often the sources of stress and depression affecting mental health). The ability to forgive others and yourself holds the key to good mental health requisite for natural healing.
Patience also refers to giving your body adequate time for natural healing. Do not resort to instant fix of your health problems by using pharmaceutical drugs or other invasive procedures. Let Nature do the work of healing.
Hippocrates, the father of medicine, once said: "Healing is a matter of time, but it is also a matter of opportunity."
You may control your blood pressure drug free: Lower Blood Pressure Naturally.
You may control your cholesterol level drug free: 60 Day Prescription Free Cholesterol Cure.
You may control your diabetes drug free: How To Fight Diabetes And Win.
Patience is a virtue in natural healing. Give your body the opportunity to heal by itself.
For more information on how not to fix your health problems with pharmaceutical drugs, go to my website Longevity Is A Drug Free Life.
Modesty is kindness manifested in compassion, friendship, and sympathy without prejudice and not for its own sake. Modesty, without envy, creates harmony with others as well as within yourself for inner peace, which is essential to the art of living well for natural healing.
Humility is selflessness, and the giving of due respect without glorifying your own self.
Apart from diligence, the other six virtues form the components of the art of living well for natural healing and health regeneration.
Copyright© by Stephen Lau
Return from The Pillar of Diligence back to the Home Page.
There is an Oriental maxim: “Sloth brings no heath.” Do you ever find a lazy person healthy? Laziness is a disease - a disease of the mind and hence the body. Man is destined to toil. Laziness does not bring about any natural healing.
Good health is a gift from Heaven. However, to receive that gift you need to appreciate it with recognition. In other words, you will have earn through diligence, not sloth.
What is diligence?
Diligence is effort, enthusiasm, and energy to attain the goal of transforming the self with a change of thoughts and attitudes to make the choice of right action. A healthy lifestyle is built on diligence - how you look at your health and how hard you try to improve it.
Confucius: The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
Essentially, a healthy lifestyle is built on your attitudes to healthy living.
You have to be aware of your own health conditions. No one is a better physician than yourself because only you know how healthy you are. Remember, good health is not simply an absence of disease, and wellness has to be wholesome.
Make a decision to change if needs be. If you keep on doing what you have been doing all your life, you will continue to be what you have been for the rest of your life.
Change now whatever that needs to be changed. Time is of essence. Do it now.
While knowing what is good for you is one thing, doing it is another. This is where diligence comes in.
According to diligence in Buddhism, you must display effort in your pursuit of the good. It requires active bodily and mental strength to improve the self for individual enlightenment. Diligence is the sustained energy to maintain enthusiasm on your spiritual journey of love and kindness to other individuals. Diligence is inspired by the deep compassion to help others as well as oneself for active, healthy, and balanced growth.
With compassion acquired through diligence, you will experience intuitive knowing, which is the essence of Buddhist human wisdom. It cannot be taught, but only experienced through enlightenment. This profound wisdom opens the door to natural healing for health rejuvenation.
Diligence is one of the seven virtues of healthy living for natural healing: chastity, abstinence, liberality, diligence, patience, modesty, and humility.
Chastity embraces moral wholesomeness, thereby achieving purity of thought through continuing education and betterment for self discovery. Good health includes not just physical health, but also mental and spiritual health. Natural healing of any disease would not be complete without wholesome mental and spiritual health maintained and sustained through chastity.
Abstinence is constant mindfulness of others and your surroundings; practicing self-control, abstention, and moderation. The Chinese wisdom of the “golden mean” (no extremity in everything) speaks volumes of the importance of abstinence or self-control in everyday living.
Liberality, as opposed to greed, is generosity - a willingness to give through a nobility of thought or actions. Mother Teresa says, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.” That says everything about liberality.
Patience is forbearance and endurance through moderation. Resolving conflicts with others, more importantly with yourself, peacefully, as opposed to resorting to anger and grudges (often the sources of stress and depression affecting mental health). The ability to forgive others and yourself holds the key to good mental health requisite for natural healing.
Patience also refers to giving your body adequate time for natural healing. Do not resort to instant fix of your health problems by using pharmaceutical drugs or other invasive procedures. Let Nature do the work of healing.
Hippocrates, the father of medicine, once said: "Healing is a matter of time, but it is also a matter of opportunity."
You may control your blood pressure drug free: Lower Blood Pressure Naturally.
You may control your cholesterol level drug free: 60 Day Prescription Free Cholesterol Cure.
You may control your diabetes drug free: How To Fight Diabetes And Win.
Patience is a virtue in natural healing. Give your body the opportunity to heal by itself.
For more information on how not to fix your health problems with pharmaceutical drugs, go to my website Longevity Is A Drug Free Life.
Modesty is kindness manifested in compassion, friendship, and sympathy without prejudice and not for its own sake. Modesty, without envy, creates harmony with others as well as within yourself for inner peace, which is essential to the art of living well for natural healing.
Humility is selflessness, and the giving of due respect without glorifying your own self.
Apart from diligence, the other six virtues form the components of the art of living well for natural healing and health regeneration.
Copyright© by Stephen Lau
Return from The Pillar of Diligence back to the Home Page.
