Suppose your clothes or head were on fire. In order to extinguish it, you’d apply intense enthusiasm, effort, zeal, vigor, perseverance, mindfulness, and situational awareness. In the same way, in order to give up those bad, unskillful qualities, that mendicant should apply intense enthusiasm …

A mendicant should reflect each night on the dangers that lie around them, and practice mindfulness of death with urgency to give up the kilesas.