About Right effort

ChatGPT Right Effort, one of the elements of the Noble Eightfold Path in Buddhism, involves cultivating a diligent and positive mindset. It means preventing unwholesome states and fostering wholesome ones, striving to overcome harmful thoughts and behaviors while nurturing beneficial ones. Right Effort requires consistent and mindful effort to develop virtues like compassion, mindfulness, and wisdom, ultimately leading to spiritual growth and liberation from suffering. It emphasizes proactive engagement in one's spiritual practice.
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Sixth step – The Right Effort

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There are Four Great Efforts, the effort to avoid, the effort to overcome, the effort to develop and the effort to maintain. What is the effort to avoid? There, the disciple incites his to avoid the arising of evil, demeritorious things that have not yet arisen; and he strives, puts forth his energy, strains his mind and struggles. Thus, when he perceives a form with the eye, a sound with the ear, an odor with the .
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Second Step – Right Mindedness

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After the First Step - Right Understanding we will go through the second step called a . What is Right Mindedness? It is thoughts free from lust; thoughts free from ill-will; thoughts free from cruelty. This is called right-mindedness. Now, Right Mindedness, let me tell you, is of two kinds: Thoughts free from lust, from ill-will, and from cruelty:-this is called the "Mundane Right Mindedness," which yields worldly fruits and brings good results. But, whatsoever there is .
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