Right Effort Joyful Effort Effortless Effort

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first time will come on to resolve as he said
what does a co-ceo thing yeah don't have it done for clampers right and i said but you know i've never done on social and co-ceo
and he said no excuses
right
the so will be called me to ask me to do this talk i was waiting for of a gentle correction
but alas
ah
anyway so when he did ask me to speak we had a discussion about what will be useful on a dare six and on right my day
and so on
make it relevant for sashing and the fact that people have been sitting here for six days something that will be encouraging so i immediately thought about a for fourth power neda
versa or zest or a joyful effort
and cultivating of joyful effort during session session is a great teacher for us
it supports us it challenges us physically and mentally and spiritually and how we discern the right amount quality of effort
it's a really big question that comes up
now terms or bible was able to sustain ourselves for session and really cope with the challenges of searching
so i thought well how is this time with bottles enlightenment blood ties and really well in the sense that hose on spoke on on
first day about the life of the border and the borders path to enlightenment has coming from a life of a privilege and nobility and and nobility with all the privileges and then has response to experiencing the highest of everyday life for people of lower castes
and how they were doing what they needed to do to survive in rural india
and after witnessing the ravages of old age sickness and death
for thought of freeing all bones from these lives of suffering arose and might call it the spirit of awakening about a cheater
and it led him to abandon his life of privilege to win his wife and child
and go off in search of
how to best work to save all beings from suffering old age and death
at that time it the spiritual teachers were primarily hindu and
beloved and all manner of austerities more solution was a length of of of extreme poverty
but many of them went off into the forest component or away from the world
they ate very little
they did a practices of concentration that were very difficult and required ruling a kind of physical and for more purposeful kinds of
our efforts
but it still after five or six years started to he gone to the point where he was anyone going of white rice a day and completely emaciated and and really extremely weak
up and then all right he finally ah
can tell that the following that despite all of this he hadn't overcome his mental afflictions he still had desire to still had a version he still had the version he was not free from did not find that within himself through these efforts and
as allen's have been he started self flagellation physically beating himself a paper noted that that's still didn't work
surprise enemy
i've never tried self-flagellation but i
don't i don't mean to flagellation and spam
so how does a pass start traveling and he came to the outskirts of bodhgaya
in area and he ellen ellen talked about how her remember the child had experience of sitting under a tree and experience on complaint relates them freedom from doing so and he came upon a wonderful bodhi tree now but in bodhgaya outside bodhgaya and he sat there and he said
there i guess the rest is history
he sat there
and in his horse of great out of effort he really did not have joyful effort he had
almost glowing idea effort he was trying for a specific thing
he was trying to this austerities to see if they worked so there was always a kind of a and idea
and that's so that's why i really wanted to talk about effort because effort
i really want to talk about effort right effort and joyful effort and if it's effortless effort
for all a continual effort and about it exerted himself and his own wife to an extreme degree and that kind of effort did not result in an appointment just setting for for days and
working with his mind and
and being able to handle that kind of a situation that and was a different kind of effort he was just sitting there not doing anything just setting
so here we are on both six and a seven day session
ah we can just a shame from are various lives filled with competing priorities demands from job family friends or on striving perhaps troubled by the influence of desire aversion delusion confusion mental a for
actions perhaps we've been trying different approaches to find peace in our lives but somehow the thought arose i've heard about a seven day session
that a big great i can go to seven recession i moved my life i made my family and i have to test hit monsanto wow
that's really cool ten my friends about and hundred and seven days a shame
i myself can ah
in a different way it was like
if i save us some people were web
a very eventful period was
they tell me that that's how my life as but
and i actually had doubts there's like am i i am really feeling used up will i actually why i know that it wasn't just peaceful
so i said how i actually where i have the energy and will and dedication to both the kind of effort it takes to bother
if a boss whatever comes up for me
so
so if you can with the illusion of
high and all that so
ah basin you start awakening in a different way we will start falling pan back hurts you lose her you start feeling made a mental pain mental anguish thoughts come up that were some is a bridle at your subconscious or bubbling up something you haven't wanted
think about some graphs and loss comes up and having to suddenly settling when a you know when normalize arrived with that grief with that ross with that desire
but you have no i have put your and you're also asked ah
tibet harmonious with lots of different kinds of people and
yeah i think that would be easy
maybe if you haven't been to a seven day session
but people are different we're all different
and so we work at difference when you're tired and when you're sitting quietly and someone else's snoring
or someone else's oryzae where you are in the kitchen and someone is as to do something and they don't do it quite the way you want them to do read or were working together in a project to know more aggressive reactive and single other person has been lazy that are kind of things will experience on
fishing and so we have to will have to give up our preferences so don't talk about preferences well session as the much as the cauldron we have to give up our preferences
when we don't want to get a pick our site like we always do you know i am most of us can i have a saint right that's kind of like our tenants are comfort place we a comfort place well no no don't know i have to give up your saying that you have to sit next to somebody on i've been doing something or you don't care for them or whatever
like you might find yourself starting to be cranking retired
oh and wondering oh
plus i can't just good when i international do my pain or can't just go to my wall now be quiet about without people know you're tired and i still have to set and you still have to interact with other people and was still have to do your position to i really don't have a choice you're here and we're stuck
certainly one of the other thing was saying about oh adding know you have to eat with within you definitely have to was given in away a privileged people are so fussy
didn't have the car just to fit the parent is to fail so certainly helps out with them if you ever cook
has he has no preference of

so i come to realization pretty soon we'll be the first couple of days that this is no picnic
that we have to we have to actually have exert a great deal of effort we have to me yes are in to set our intention and our vows i'm gonna stay here we're gonna be practicing the first group of people for the benefit of this group of people it's not about me i really i know what we're gonna do
no i wanted it to be this other way but
this is what it is i have to say this is what it is and it's okay okay i'm okay it's okay but that takes a lot of effort because we're tired and want to take a nap the com clappers come forward period
and haven't yet only you think well maybe i'll get a nice cushy job putting stuff on ropes
and know if an older in the garden crew and you're gonna have a lot of fun in been or here are you having to do some other physical robber that requires a great amount of effort going to asked i just kind of actually requires you to pay attention and actually have a of that's working
which i find that's the hardest thing for me because my mind it gets caught get lost sometimes of the emptiness and i am of spacey so when i'm asked to do something that is very technical perhaps require some detail and attention and i have to lose every
thing i've got everything i've got to be able to focus on that way
so i wouldn't to gesture very quickly why did you talk about what is effort
the definition of effort is exertion and physical and mental power
so i say it will take a great deal of effort to complaint and live through a shame
also an earnest have an earnest strenuous or strenuous attempt
so is it that would be an intentional effort to keep to the schedule regardless of preferences
another japanese something done by exertion or hard work oh i thought it would be easy but kneeling in the mud to the guy won't takes a lot of effort and achievement
such as and literature or buddha study
that kind of effort
ha could be translated in cutting through the temptations of the models to complete a seven both session that is a bog effort
the the are the word album if i come from the latin the boy is attempt strenuous exertion
force impetuosity strength power force out exert oneself
export theory in latin effect is i effort when it begins to hurt that's none other
so we got it
so there's been some of these definitions really sound like the boat effort right
they're all exerting effort with the mind of they sound like the mind of doing something the mind of ago
they don't capture what we mean by right effort
and and right effort as them
sixth step
in the bonus isa in the mam eight fold path so what is what does right effort
right if it involves actually
not so much dying as becoming
it requires
cultivation of course activities cultivation of of morality cultivation of uprightness
and he was facing unwholesome qualities
abandoned will negative states of mind getting rid of expectation getting rid of judging
that arise
and spent learning how to sustain positive
martin
the states
canterbury that transformation more are setting of on wholesome emotion
morgan states of mind how do i babysat go through that to the point where i can let that go
so that i can moment when i have something to do i'm not counting those negative mental states i'm acting in an upright while away for the benefit of all beings is an intentional it helps us it's developing bus this attitude of wholesome
and beneficial action that bodhisattvas vow to accomplish so it's avoiding
ah a warning not available now because i don't want to say that that's very honest ah
it's it's not a problem is it's learning how to manage
when i get a bit most states like anger like jealousy or judgment both those things come up bring human beings those scores come up but how do i be in a group of all those people about harmonious with those states it doesn't work whatever i do it becomes tainted by those little bit of wine states
so i'm to an action on a position with a negative attitude it is gonna show in action it's gonna show him my speech and action
so how can i exerted effort
that that is according town
that's right effort
there's a story about the
the the tang dynasty one monk who better table by night and he thought he was practicing harder than anyone else and it was very proud of it to become about his teacher that's what i wanted to do i wanted to become a buddha
the teacher picked up a tile and began polishing it monk said
how can i make a it out of a tile
now the teacher said how can you make a better by setting so right effort does not what will do it's the mind that we do it in western for my not controlled by thoughts of attaining are thought to being a model student so the core question is how do we do
something diligent way and a whole hearted way and not get caught in gaining idea like get caught in judging ourselves or others
so once we have perfected that
a completely
we ready to go on to joyful effort
because we have worked with our mental states right we have hopefully done at you can't really have joyful effort inspired effort with a lot of baggage
just doesn't work so we have to the hard work what cause
oh so sign a shanty deva
says that
joy for effort is an enthusiasm for virtue
what is its antithesis
petrus loss claim to reprehensible mindset reprehensible but reprehensible creating from lot lounging around at a bad and indifferent to the muslims of the cycle of existence not saying you're attending to the suffering of others for on awakening of freedom from suffering
so it is
he also says it's it's ban and just uncaring
ah sang despondent relatives with their eyes swollen and red with tears and their faces and on their faces the impact of their grief
ah
and enthusiasm for virtue when it is to be it's antithesis it a spiritual sloss clinging to the reprehensible apathy and self contempt spiritual sloths arises from endurance some crane on for lounging around have being on a different to the miseries of the cycle
existence not saying you're attending to the suffering of others or two more own awakening and freedom from suffering
oh and he goes onto say seemed despondent relatives with their eyes swollen and red with tears on their faces expect results host is very pretty so you have done expect results with no effort while in the clutches of death he acted like an immortal hey miserable run
david fisher points out that the other side of
straws which were bomb business is also a hindrance to
joyful effort running around keeping yourself busy doing so many things to avoid actually sitting down and confront our our resistance to awakening and your own subtle mind the think you're doing a lot of good i think you're goal but hey there
and really exhausting yourself and
and we're actually possible to die that was an actual i'm focused on your practice and practice in a meaningful way so as the other side of it
the other us fear
toronto this is trying to do over again tormented by your own vices hearing sounds of hell and a foul on your body with extra extra it out of fear what we're doing were so terrified
i felt thinking i shall have to sacrifice my arms legs and like for countless aeons i shall be cut pierced and burned and split up and many times but awakening will occur but this sofa is like that of extract of extraction removing the pain of an embedded splinter so
were afraid were so afraid of letting go of ourselves and our thoughts and a horrific wheeler and what will think is right because because one basics it's really scary simply talked about far earlier fat loss of self
as far as going to hell no well i went what i do what would i do
when fisher says joyful if it requires having the courage to go feel the fear
letting go of an egocentric self
don't whole wholeheartedly
recognizing that same on obama's and clinton's your small self but isn't your small self so what are the benefits of joy forever
on account of abandoning vices and accumulating merits owing to the aspiration of a span of a woking awakening which carries away if i want to save all beings i must acquire many good qualities for myself and for others it may take hands so cultivating patients
although fisher says that seems hard to intentionally commit to a path of good good health good conduct devoting herself to the well-being of others good and he gave some x exact examples of how that actually it actually focusing on one
thing making an effort on one thing as how carefully working with stage i shall go through with that one thing is really a key term to getting away from the fear of the whole thing which serves and one is so he gives examples like i will decide you're going to go on an exercise program
and will start the exercise program and you have to start slowly and will have to build up and it hurts and will soar and you have to take time out of your day but scale model it and still into it and then gradually the pain goes away and graduate of gradual mobile energy comes forth in yours
self so that but vulnerable rugged and so even though i go running or happy when you go running the realize the benefits of having done the work it wasn't that is a kind of a real life know and that's any and of obviously he's using that banners as an expanded for an example for kind of effort it takes
it seems hard it sounds like do i have to face myself do i have to fear the negative was horrible places i've been hiding do i have to do that yes there's no getting out of it especially when you're on sashaying there's no exit
so what comes next after are sort of beat down and filling your fear and resistance is really making a commitment recognizing yes i know it's gonna be hard but i'm really going to make an effort
and he says
the it
ashanti enables the after first examining the ones me as when should either begin or not begin showing what is better to began and turn back once one has begun so it's kind of a like i was making i am i gonna do this no matter what
i ain't gonna do this no matter what
upon completion must cultivate of be upright and ethical and overcome mental afflictions of desire pride and self centeredness one fisher cause of integrity the bellamy integrity and for me that that kind of oz in kennedy is really in by
body
photo morality and living in that way oh that way can continue to practice and have more energy into practice but also how can you do have helped to other people if you are not if you have not developed that integrity so that you can actually that had of that efficacy to teach other people or
watch other people in the same thing

the chatted over also says develop self-confidence by watching the benefits of new effort so when you're done it all those wait
they were setting you can have less busy mind when you're sitting and something is asked if you can just say as without resistance
i'm important family talking about joyful and effort and effort in general is just not from getting herself
no vicious does a lot of talking about this don't forget yourself all banks in a him sometimes i think we're going to commit ourselves to a path of on the bombs will forget and going to drive ourselves just like the monk dry became self were just like a shock him on a do
rival himself to the point of your death when more exhaustion for sure for the rest of us
from trying to do too much that saps or energy and that takes away our ability to help us to help all beings
so it's my god
to develop a practice it seems to me of
ah what mind with what mind
am i doing this
am i doing this with a mind of generosity of and ten championship for the well ah
who's doing it
who's doing it
what does the boy what is the bone which has the bay that's doing it
so
that kind of leads me to effortless effort
effort everyone's effort effortless effort friend has effort without partiality nor assigned a position
totally and in janet it's rolling out homework is engaging it bores just engaging in it
drop judging wind and gain mind
one of 'em
what if i shouted davis teachers was an action was performed for the sake of happiness who had happened a small not occur
so the goal is the goal the goal is it is not a girl it's the effort itself which has an activity where activity is not
producing something like this and the image that if dough if you don't get the alcohol want more failed is if i didn't care my for effort to it then i like to think about that if i get my full effort to it that's all i can do
that's all i can do if i just last for several days and i rarely give me the full effort and i kept us in the chair you know a court or crawl
i've made a good effort i stand here i have stayed with me my mental afflictions i've stayed with my emotional conditions i've stayed with everybody i've worked together with everybody
i am somehow out of that effort of all of us working together just doing
ah so and really starting to develop
what i'm dogan talks about and fermenters of guiness it identity action so it's not about me
so when you clean the bathroom will just clone a bathroom smart about what you think about that job that was my biggest woke up during shocked when i was just so cleaning the bathrooms that was not something i had a preference for but after
six time i really it was a great thing i just was cleaning the bathroom i got really engaged in a little crevices around the windows and now have a little tit family the top and a floor that between between tiles and oh maybe i can get something out him as claim before but i won't was very interest
did i will just found okay that's what i'm doing that's what i'm going to be going for six weeks calling bathroom so i just
became became cleaning the bathrooms
but there wasn't any goal or any attachment at all to bed after a while
so so to when the when that's happening there is no actor there's just acting roles just effort there is just joyful effort joyful effort is happening and i see it all around us right when you say a cook some cooks you know our joyful sometimes in that joyful other times but if i go into the
kitchen was joyous and was really ever happening in harmony you say whoa look at this there's just cooking happening there's just a bunch of beings are cooking happening
when you're cutting the canada little stories are cutting the cavs just cut the carrots there's no can push know there's just cutting so this is really the totally engaged effort of effortless effort
effortless effort becomes joyful just because of that because how can you help be joyful if you're not carrying a lot of baggage onto your activity you have no expectations all i'm doing is wanting
oh oh yeah that looks nicer oh you know just actually not even thinking that actually not even thinking it if you if you're really doing it you're not thinking that but yes editing your consciousness while doing some benefit for for in such a being that
the benefit is happening benefit is happening and that minute that we generate and will generate a lot of merit dank session and on these things when we're doing it which will happen will get away and dedicate to our boeing's it's not a own it's not the project i just completed that was roaring great
it's not how perfectly i did that
so not about perfection it's about effort
some of sincere and then they engage as fully then they there when the effort because
just a flowing from one activity other
okay the bell rings okay i'm going
that kind of effort is very different from was driving in the crawling
crawling and that dissatisfaction
so hopefully people have gotten
a test of that during so shane my i still have a day in half
but don't have any goals
may or may not happen but you may i just have glimpses and lot of
what have you may have one experience cutting a carrot and that experience can be normal life changing but will i can so but expectations or don't have to be great that bottom just concentrate on something and give it your home card
so i don't know if we have any time