Dhamma Byte: Expecting Quick Results in Meditation Practice Without Understanding Right Effort
Channel: Samatha Vipassana Trust
Date: 2022-09-05

Ven. Khema emphasizes the importance of Right Effort in cultivating a meditation practice that brings about long-term behavioral changes that are desirable. The four steps of Right Effort are broken down into two sets of two steps each:

TWO STEPS TO PURIFY MIND:

1. RECOGNIZE when an unwholesome state of mind has arisen;
2. LET GO of any attention placed on an unwholesome state of mind and RELAX;

TWO STEPS TO RETRAIN MIND:

3. BRING UP A WHOLESOME mind-state - an instant SMILE will work very well;
4. SUPPORT THAT WHOLESOME STATE and develop other wholesome states.  REPEAT this cycle as needed whenever any distraction causes your attention to move away from your object of meditation. 

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: 

+ How to practice TWIM (Loving-Kindness) Meditation?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWcPnzzttXM

+ What are the TWIM 6 Rs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGAa66W3Mbo

+ How to practice Forgiveness Meditation? 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E21b9AjIO9Q

+ A complete guide to the meditation as taught by the Buddha:
https://www.thepathtonibbana.com/

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+ Sutta Readings: Discourses with the Buddha from Majjhima Nikāya, Saṃyukta Nikāya, Dīgha Nikāya and Aṅguttara Nikāya
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+ Dhamma Dew Drops: Audio Tips for Joyful Meditation and Happy Living
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+ TWIM Foundation Series (2022)
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+ TWIM Foundation Series (2020)
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+ Buddhism As A Religion
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+ Story of the Buddha's Family Members
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+ Sigālovāda Sutta (DN): Advice to Lay People For A Fulfilling Life
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+ Mahātaṇhāsaṅkhaya Sutta (MN-38): The Longer Discourse on the Ending of Craving
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+ 37 Requisites for Awakening
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+ Strengthening Relationships During Covid-19 Lockdown (2020)
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