Right Effort, the 6th step on the Noble Eightfold Path, is not about striving or straining, it is about learning to guide the mind with wisdom and care. In this talk, we reflect on the Four Great Efforts: 1) Preventing the arising of unwholesome states, 2) Abandoning those that have already arisen, 3) Cultivating wholesome qualities, 4) Extending and nourishing wholesome states that are present. These four ways of applying effort, remembered with the acronym PACE.
While walking meditation often receives less attention than sitting meditation, it offers numerous benefits worth exploring. In this talk, we will go into the 'Walking Meditation' sutta, where the Buddha outlines five benefits of this practice. We’ll conclude with a bonus benefit.
This talk explores how compassion loosens striving, softens judgment, and reveals freedom. Through stories and practice reflections, we explore letting go, laying down the armor, and beginning again
Exploring the tangle of dukkha, and how it is related both to the nature of experience as impermanent, unreliable and uncontrollable and to the deep wish for happiness, safety and ease.
