Eight Practices of Right Diligence

Right diligence is not about making a strenuous or heroic effort. It's about working steadily in that direction, no matter how long it takes. The four traditional steps of right effort are to make sure unwholesome darmas have not yet arisenour anger, our jealousy, our envy and so on. When they do arise, when conditions for them to arise are present, they will arise. So we should try to be patient with them and let them fall away.