Four Right Diligence
https://www.mindfulnessbell.org/archive/tag/Right+Diligence%2FEffort Four Practices for Cultivating Right Effort The first practice is, don’t water the bad seeds/ unwholesome seeds . You know that there are negative seeds in you, and if they manifest, you will suffer. So let them sleep peacefully. When you watch a film, when you read a newspaper, when you listen to music, there is a chance that a seed will be watered and will manifest. We have to consume in mindfulness so that the bad seeds are not watered. When we love each other we have to sign a peace treaty. “Darling, I promise never to water the bad seeds in you or in me, and you have to do the same. You have those seeds. You must not water them in you, and don’t water them in me.” The second practice is that every time a bad mental formation manifests, we have to make unwholesome seeds go back to sleep , because if we keep it here too long, then it strengthens down in the base. If we leave it up in the mind for an hour, the...