sn12.22:3.1 A lazy person lives in suffering, mixed up with bad, unskillful qualities, neglecting their heart’s great goal.
sn12.22:3.2 But an energetic person lives happily, secluded from bad, unskillful qualities, fulfilling their heart’s great goal.
sn12.22:3.3 The best isn’t reached by the worst.
sn12.22:3.4 The best is reached by the best.
sn12.22:3.5 This spiritual life is the cream, mendicants, and the Teacher is before you.
sn12.22:3.6 So you should rouse up energy for attaining the unattained, achieving the unachieved, and realizing the unrealized, thinking:
sn12.22:3.7 ‘In this way our going forth will not be barren, but will be fruitful and fertile.
sn12.22:3.8 And the services of those whose robes, almsfood, lodgings, and medicines and supplies for the sick we enjoy shall be very fruitful and beneficial for them.’
sn12.22:3.9 That’s how you should train.
sn12.22:3.10 Considering what is good for yourself, mendicants, is quite enough for you to persist with diligence.
sn12.22:3.11 Considering what is good for others is quite enough for you to persist with diligence.
sn12.22:3.12 Considering what is good for both is quite enough for you to persist with diligence.”