Topics Include: 1) The antecedents of right effort: understanding our motivation and the benefits of meditation; 2) The four forms of right effort; 3) Relationship between wisdom and the meditative factors of effort, mindfulness, and concentration; 4) Viriya, or the quality of energy behind effort; 5) The reason for the importance of energy due to the primacy of self motivation on the spiritual path; 6) Moving from an unconscious, deluded mind to an awake, liberated mind; 7) Understanding latent defilements.
January 31, 2015
Honolulu, Hawaii
46 minutes