Effort -2

This week we are exploring effort in practice and effort in relationship. Effort is the root of our practice. It’s the root of accomplishment. Without effort we stay lost in our deeply rooted habit patterns. It’s important to understand wise effort because wrongly applied it can be confused with ambition, it can be confused with expectation and we know from our experience, that over-efforting, when we’re in that mode, it leads to agitation.

So I want to offer some practice tools for applying effort in your life. We start with our small habits, we begin to work with them; it can be as simple as how we drive or the approach to our day, how we engage with others, or what we eat. What we are practicing is making those things more conscious. Being aware, approaching everything with greater attention, with more care, and ultimately with more kindness.