Sentence examples for perfection of effort from inspiring English sources

Together with the devas, they symbolize the perfection of effort (virya).

In order to cultivate the perfection of effort, a Bodhisattva works on developing the deep conviction that each step of the path brings him or her closer to complete and final victory over suffering and true and lasting happiness.

Over time, you will find that you can avoid the traps altogether, because your perfection of effort will cause you to experience joy when you have recognized and avoided a trap before falling into it in the first place.

If we are pushing ourselves too hard to practice some elements of the spiritual path, and we have become annoyed or exhausted, it is time for us to take a break from these activities and choose a method of relaxation, viewing it as an element of the perfection of effort.

In the latter case, we have failed to keep in mind one of the elements of the perfection of joyful effort.

When we do this, we have not stopped doing our practice because it is annoying us at the time; we have just begun practicing some other element of the path -- the perfection of joyful effort.

It may seem far-fetched to some, but once a bodhisattva has cultivated the perfection of joyful effort, he or she has the ability to experience joy in the face of suffering.

In Buddhism, we can find the teaching of giving from 'The Six Paramitas' known as 'The Six Perfections': perfection of giving, morality, patience, effort, meditation, and wisdom.

It was the only chapter on a living artist and explicitly presented Michelangelo's works as the culminating perfection of art, surpassing the efforts of all those before him.

I was sitting there shivering in a locked ward because I had put a dangerous amount of effort into my quest for perfection.

That one single, that one moment of pure pop perfection, that solitary effort, "New Dream" is part of a tricolour triumvirate of reissues set for release on San Francisco label, Dark Entries, late this month.