The key of success in life

A study has said that everybody wants to get success in life by adopting a proverb “work is worship”. For example, a student needs to get success in education; businessman needs to get maximum profit, to advance their careers etc. But how to achieve the goal is not easy for everyone as someone may succeed whereas another one may fail.
Everyone wishes to get success in prime time to achieve the goal. Therefore, this issue is written in order to pave the way for all readers to know how to learn to wait for success.

Actually, most of persons know well the way how to succeed. There is success everywhere whether passing the examination getting high marks in student hood, achieving success to get a job, getting Promotion to joy a higher position in the employment, and being successful in English language to achieve a soothing path for attaining higher education.
If we ask the question to any person that how to succeed in life, I am quite sure that every person gives good answers. But it’s doubtful that how many persons will enable to do as they know. In fact, we must face many obstacles approaching in our life with heart and soul to attain success. Those obstacles cause us lose our way. Rather than success, failure becomes our termination. To help for better understanding, I would like to express my views how to get success in life as following;
Firstly, we should behave politely in respect of a hard worker who puts a lot of effort in his works for achieving higher status and recognition. Success is not possible for lazy man, which in turn, it is no longer failure for diligent man.
Secondly, confidence is needed for persons to observe the principal elements that defined career advancement to overcome all problems which we face during work. However, the persons having a high confidence will be habitually ambitious to do any work without hesitation to attain the goal.
Thirdly, we should maintain good conduct and impeccable manner. Moreover, we should be restrained in actions and speech in respect of another person.
Those three points as mentioned above have been expressed from my view. In consistent with the Buddha teaching that pathways to success known as Iddhipada consist of four conditions as below;
1. Chanda : satisfaction and joy in the thing concerned. It means having a heart of zeal to be keen to do something and to do it for the love of it, to wish to bring an activity or task to its optimum fruition.
2. Viriya : diligent effort in doing the thing concerned. It means apply oneself to task with effort, fortitude, patience and perseverance not abandoning it or becoming discouraged but striving ever onward until success is attained.
3. Citta : attending wholeheartedly to the thing concerned without letting it go. It means to establish one’s attention on the task in hand and do it thoughtfully not allowing the mind to wander.
4. Vimamsa : diligently thinking around and investigating the reasons in the thing concerned. It means to do something by experimenting, planning and evaluating results, and devising solutions and improvements in order to manage and carry out the activity in hard so as to achieve better results.
Therefore, one who desires progress and success in life should practice according to the principles of success which are Chanda, Viriya, Citta and Vimamsa.

May the Buddha sasana last forever and ever.

Ref: Abhidhammattha Singaha.

Written by AshinSandima (Dhammalayeik)