Many custom options...
And formats...
Endeavor in Chinese / Japanese...
Buy an Endeavor calligraphy wall scroll here!
Personalize your custom “Endeavor” project by clicking the button next to your favorite “Endeavor” title below...
6. Right Effort / Right Endeavor / Perfect Effort
Samyag Vyayama / Samma Vayama
正精進 is one of the Noble Eightfold Paths of Buddhism. Right Effort, along with Right Mindfulness and Right Concentration, constitute the path to Concentration or Perfect Thought.
The proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake in each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and defilement, and the effort to make each activity of our daily meditation. This concept is about pursuing wholesome things that promote good karma.
Another definition: Cultivation of what is karmically wholesome and avoidance of what is karmically unwholesome.
This term is exclusively used by devout Buddhists. It is not a common term, and is remains an unknown concept to most Japanese and Chinese people.
See Also: Buddhism | Enlightenment | Noble Eightfold Path
Great Endeavor / To Strive
努力 means great effort; to strive; to try hard; great effort; great exertion; great endeavor (endeavour); great effort; to strive.
This “striving endeavor” word is valid in Chinese, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja.
All Tenets of the Noble Eightfold Path
These are the eight tenets of the Buddhist Noble Eightfold Path written altogether.
Here's this list of tenets in English:
1. Right View / Right Understanding / Right Perspective / Perfect View
2. Right Resolve / Right Thought / Right Intention / Perfect Resolve
3. Right Speech / Right Talk / Perfect Speech
4. Right Action / Perfect Conduct
5. Right Living / Right Livelihood / Perfect Livelihood
6. Right Effort / Right Endeavor / Perfect Effort
7. Right Mindfulness / Right Memory / Perfect Mindfulness
8. Right Concentration / Perfect Concentration
These search terms might be related to Endeavor:
6. Right Effort / Right Endeavor / Perfect Effort
Always Try to Do Better
Let Us Try
Risk / Venture
Spare No Effort
Not the results for endeavor that you were looking for?
Below are some entries from our dictionary that may match your endeavor search...
| Characters If shown, 2nd row is Simp. Chinese |
Pronunciation Romanization |
Simple Dictionary Definition |
努力 see styles |
nǔ lì nu3 li4 nu li doryoku どりょく |
More info & calligraphy: Great Endeavor / To Strive(n,vs,vi) effort; exertion; endeavour; endeavor; hard work; striving; (surname) Nuriki to strive |
靈感 灵感 see styles |
líng gǎn ling2 gan3 ling kan reikan |
More info & calligraphy: Inspiration靈應 Spirit-response, efficacious as in response to prayer. |
勉 see styles |
miǎn mian3 mien masaru まさる |
to exhort; to make an effort (given name) Masaru to endeavor |
主創 主创 see styles |
zhǔ chuàng zhu3 chuang4 chu ch`uang chu chuang |
to play a major role in a creative endeavor (e.g. making a movie); person who plays a key creative role (e.g. movie director) |
五果 see styles |
wǔ guǒ wu3 guo3 wu kuo goka ごか |
(1) five fruits (peach, Japanese plum, apricot, jujube, Japanese chestnut); (2) (Buddhist term) five types of effect in cause-and-effect relationships; (3) (Buddhist term) five effects of ignorance and formations on one's current life The five fruits, or effects; there are various groups, e. g. I. (1) 異熟果 fruit ripening divergently, e. g. pleasure and goodness are in different categories; present organs accord in pain or pleasure with their past good or evil deeds; (2) 等流果 fruit of the same order, e. g. goodness reborn from previous goodness; (3) 土用果 present position and function fruit, the rewards of moral merit in previous lives; (4) 增上果 superior fruit, or position arising from previous earnest endeavor and superior capacity: (5) 離繋果 fruit of freedom from all bonds, nirvana fruit. II. Fruit, or rebirth: (1) 識 conception (viewed psychologically); (2) 名色 formation mental and physical; (3) 六處 the six organs of perception complete; (4) 觸 their birth and contact with the world; (5) 受 consciousness. III. Five orders of fruit, with stones, pips, shells (as nuts), chaff-like (as pine seeds), and with pods. |
出名 see styles |
chū míng chu1 ming2 ch`u ming chu ming |
well-known for something; to become well known; to make one's mark; to lend one's name (to an event, endeavor etc) |
励む see styles |
hagemu はげむ |
(v5m,vi) to work hard; to try hard; to strive; to endeavour; to endeavor; to devote oneself to; to make an effort; to be zealous |
勤道 see styles |
qín dào qin2 dao4 ch`in tao chin tao gondō |
the path of endeavor |
奮進 奋进 see styles |
fèn jìn fen4 jin4 fen chin |
to advance bravely; to endeavor |
戳力 see styles |
chuō lì chuo1 li4 ch`o li cho li |
to work toward; to endeavor; an attempt |
正懃 see styles |
zhèng qín zheng4 qin2 cheng ch`in cheng chin shōgon |
right endeavor |
此道 see styles |
cǐ dào ci3 dao4 tz`u tao tzu tao |
such matters; things like this; this line of work; this pursuit; this hobby; this endeavor |
殫力 殚力 see styles |
dān lì dan1 li4 tan li |
to strive; endeavor |
發悟 发悟 see styles |
fā wù fa1 wu4 fa wu hotsugo |
endeavor |
策勤 see styles |
cè qín ce4 qin2 ts`e ch`in tse chin sakugon |
endeavor |
精勤 see styles |
jīng qín jing1 qin2 ching ch`in ching chin seikin / sekin せいきん |
(n,vs,vi) diligence; good attendance to endeavor |
緣起 缘起 see styles |
yuán qǐ yuan2 qi3 yüan ch`i yüan chi engi |
to originate; origin; genesis; account of the origins of an endeavor Arising from conditional causation; everything arises from conditions, and not being spontaneous and self-contained has no separate and independent nature; cf. 緣生. It is a fundamental doctrine of the Huayan school, which defines four principal uses of the term: (1) 業感緣起 that of the Hīnayāna, i.e. under the influence of karma the conditions of reincarnation arise; (2) 賴耶緣起 that of the primitive Mahāyāna school, i.e. that all things arise from the ālaya, or 藏 fundamental store; (3) 如來藏緣起 that of the advancing Mahāyāna, that all things arise from the tathāgatagarbha, or bhūtatathatā; (4) 法界緣起 that of complete Mahāyāna, in which one is all and all are one, each being a universal cause. |
試み see styles |
kokoromi こころみ |
(1) attempt; trial; experiment; (2) endeavour (endeavor); effort; venture; initiative |
跨刀 see styles |
kuà dāo kua4 dao1 k`ua tao kua tao |
to appear in sb's show; (fig.) to give one's support to an endeavor by taking on an important role in it |
跨界 see styles |
kuà jiè kua4 jie4 k`ua chieh kua chieh |
to go beyond the border; to be transboundary; (fig.) to transition to a new field of endeavor; to be interdisciplinary |
軌道 轨道 see styles |
guǐ dào gui3 dao4 kuei tao kidou / kido きどう |
track (for trains etc); orbit (of a satellite); (fig.) a person's established path in life; desired trajectory (of a business or other endeavor); (audio engineering) track; (quantum mechanics) orbital (noun - becomes adjective with の) (1) {astron;physics} orbit; trajectory; (2) railroad track; (3) (See 軌道に乗る・1) (right) track; proper course |
力める see styles |
tsutomeru つとめる |
(transitive verb) to endeavor (endeavour); to try; to strive; to make an effort; to exert oneself; to be diligent; to be committed (to doing something) |
努める see styles |
tsutomeru つとめる |
(transitive verb) to endeavor (endeavour); to try; to strive; to make an effort; to exert oneself; to be diligent; to be committed (to doing something) |
勉める see styles |
tsutomeru つとめる |
(transitive verb) to endeavor (endeavour); to try; to strive; to make an effort; to exert oneself; to be diligent; to be committed (to doing something) |
四正勤 see styles |
sì zhèng qín si4 zheng4 qin2 ssu cheng ch`in ssu cheng chin shi shōgon |
saṃyakprahāṇa, v. 三十七道品; the four right efforts一to put an end to existing evil; prevent evil arising; bring good into existence; develop existing good; 四正斷; 四意斷 are similar but the third point is the conservation of the good. |
奮進號 奋进号 see styles |
fèn jìn hào fen4 jin4 hao4 fen chin hao |
Space Shuttle Endeavor |
んと欲す see styles |
ntohossu んとほっす |
(expression) (after the ない stem of a verb) to endeavor to; to try to; to want to |
営利行為 see styles |
eirikoui / erikoi えいりこうい |
profit-making activity; commercial endeavor |
徒勞無益 徒劳无益 see styles |
tú láo wú yì tu2 lao2 wu2 yi4 t`u lao wu i tu lao wu i |
futile endeavor (idiom) |
心がける see styles |
kokorogakeru こころがける |
(transitive verb) to keep in mind; to bear in mind; to try; to aim to do; to endeavor; to endeavour |
Click here for more endeavor results from our dictionary
The following table may be helpful for those studying Chinese or Japanese...
| Title | Characters | Romaji (Romanized Japanese) | Various forms of Romanized Chinese | |
| 6. Right Effort Right Endeavor Perfect Effort | 正精進 正精进 | sei shou jin seishoujin sei sho jin | zhèng jīng jìn zheng4 jing1 jin4 zheng jing jin zhengjingjin | cheng ching chin chengchingchin |
| Great Endeavor To Strive | 努力 | doryoku / doryoku | nǔ lì / nu3 li4 / nu li / nuli | |
| All Tenets of the Noble Eightfold Path | 正見正思唯正語正業正命正精進正念正定 正见正思唯正语正业正命正精进正念正定 | shouken shoushiyui shougo shougo shoumyou shoushoujin shounen shoujou shoken shoshiyui shogo shogo shomyo shoshojin shonen shojo | zhèng jiàn zhèng sī wéi zhèng yǔ zhèng yè zhèng mìng zhèng jīng jìn zhèng niàn zhèng dìng zheng4 jian4 zheng4 si1 wei2 zheng4 yu3 zheng4 ye4 zheng4 ming4 zheng4 jing1 jin4 zheng4 nian4 zheng4 ding4 zheng jian zheng si wei zheng yu zheng ye zheng ming zheng jing jin zheng nian zheng ding | cheng chien cheng ssu wei cheng yü cheng yeh cheng ming cheng ching chin cheng nien cheng ting |
| In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line. In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese. | ||||
Successful Chinese Character and Japanese Kanji calligraphy searches within the last few hours...
