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Sept. 4, 2018

Everyday Buddhism 13 - Right Effort: Joyful Balance

Everyday Buddhism 13 - Right Effort: Joyful Balance

Adjusting Habits for Natural Joy, Not Perfection

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In this podcast, we'll look at the sixth part of The Eightfold Path and the first step into the area of meditation: Right Effort. Is your energy, your efforts, positive contributors to making you more content ... and making the people around you more content? If not, maybe you need to bring attention to and tweak your habits a little bit.

We'll look at the hindrances to right effort and the obstacles to concentration or destructive trains of thought. It's all about noticing and removing or replacing a little habit, followed by another, and another.

And guess what? It all hinges on paying attention; about noticing. That is the hard part. Adjusting your habits isn't as hard. Listen to find ways to help in creating "joyous effort" through "The Five Daily Guidelines" offered by The Bright Dawn Center of Oneness Buddhism:
http://www.brightdawn.org/Five%20Daily%20Life%20Guidelines.pdf