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.

After an introduction to metta meditation, a guided meditation which includes the categories of benefactor, self, dear friend and a neutral being.

Mud and Lotus: Cultivating Wisdom (Guided Meditation and Dharmette)

An overview of the 12 links of Dependent Origination, followed by how this teaching points to emptiness.