Hello and welcome to another episode of the Secular Buddhism Podcast.

This is episode number 141.

I am your host Noah Rochetta, and today I'm going to talk about skillful effort.

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In this podcast episode, I wanted to share some of my thoughts regarding the topic of

effort.

So in Buddhism, we follow what's called the Eightfold Path.

These are eight specific areas that you focus on to live a more mindful life.

And the eight areas are right understanding, right intent, right speech, right action,

right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration.

And I've talked about these in general.

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