Effort (Buddhism)

The quality on which all auspicious qualities depend, true effort involves fulfilling and accomplishing virtues; and is contrasted with striving to accomplish affairs in this lifetime, which is simply lazy attachment to bad action. It may be one of five types: armouring, or the prior willingness to engage in virtue; application, or the mental delight of carrying out that practice; non-inferiority, the delight in not questioning one's ability to do such actions; irreversibility, the delight which prevents circumstances from impeding the practice; and non-satisfaction, which spurs one on to greater virtues and is not satisfied with achieving the smaller.

One of the eleven virtuous mental factors referred to in Tibetan Buddhism.