Answer by Suminda Sirinath S. Dharmasena for How is the faculty of persistence developed?

Persistence is cultivated by

• guarding and abandoning
• developing and maintaining

One way to guard and abandon unwholesomeness while developing and maintaining wholesomeness you have to note what has arisen within you.

• Aversion / unpleasant feeling - something is not agreeable
• Craving / pleasant feeling - something is agreeable

By maintaining total equanimity with the knowledge of arising and passing then you abandon and develop.

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