Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

Next is given the list of eight cures for them. The cures
for laziness are:
a. Faith
b. Maintaining the desire for Enlightenment (If you
understand fully the importance of meditation, you will
always pursue it.)
c. Diligence
d. Comfortably abiding; not giving pain to yourself by
extreme asceticism. With these four medicines we shall
not be lazy.
For forgetfulness:
e. The medicine of mindfulness
For sleepiness and excitability:
f. Right recognition (Awake quickly to the trouble and
cure it. Think upon painful things and see that there is
no time to waste.)
To cure negligence:
g. Right thinking (Think of what may result from apathy
or negligence; one must think in this way or obstacles
will overcome one, then one will not act, and will fall
asleep.)
As cure for over-zealousness:
h. Renunciation of likes and dislikes (this leads one to
equanimity).
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