Right Effort

Right Effort 

          Right Effort is the first fold for meditation training. In ethical practice, it means the right way to overcome obstacles and dangers that can arise in our own work. The practice of Right Effort is the cultivation  of that which is wholesome and the elimination  of that which is unwholesome in thought and action, including specific cautions against defilement such as greed, gluttony, hatred, anger, delusion, and fantasies. The essence of Right Effort is a focus on the inner obstacles to mindfulness : the urge of the body, the entreaty of emotions and the rationalization and imaging of the mind. We face these obstacles in two different but equally necessary ways. First, by creating an environment conducive to mindfulness practice, and, second, by diligent efforts to recognize what is helpful and what is harmful in our individual lives, and then cultivating the helpful while eliminating the harmful effort.



          According to the Suttra Doctrine, the Buddha taught us four ways of Right Effort or Right Exertion : called the Padhana 4 : the effort to prevent and to overcome all unwholesome actions, and the effort to cultivate and to maintain meritorious deeds.






By THE BUDDHA'S Core Teachings