Hey there. Welcome. Thank you for joining me tonight at Darmapunks, New York City.

Couple announcements on Monday through Friday mornings at 8 a.m.

Join Kathy for her morning meditations.

And the information is in the website,

darmopunks NYC.com.

On the 25th of June, I believe is our next gathering at center yoga.

On 23rd Street, Sunday, June 25th.

So that will be from 2 to 5 p.m.

And on August 31st, we'll be having our four day residential retreat at Garrison Institute last year was really wonderful, a lot of fun. So yeah, once again,

Darma Pung Senway C, you can find out about upcoming gathering in

Philadelphia on the 17th, the gathering in Philadelphia on the 17th the gathering in person in New York as well on the 25th and the

retreat at Garrison Institute.

And if you'd like to support my work,

which would be really nice,

so I could keep going as a Buddhist pastor. The Venmo is Darmopunks with an ex NYC and really I don't ever charge for anything I do so it's all supported by donations and the

PayPal is Dartmouth punks NYC and sorry that's's the Patreon and the PayPal is on the website as well.

So tonight in Garma Wright effort is of central import that calls for ongoing awareness of our mind states.

Right effort is the attempt to prevent thoughts and mental attitudes that cause suffering from taking control of our attention.

And conversely, we're to endeavor to cultivate skillful and wholesome thoughts such as compassion and generosity and kindness.

Right, effort is a kind of mindfulness or self-awareness practice we are asked to do all the time. It's kind of the meditation we do throughout our life even when we're not sitting on a cushion or it's just this ongoing awareness of are my thoughts how I'm thinking right now making my mood better or worse am I

causing more conflict or less conflict in my life, right effort, our mindfulness of thinking is known as

meta-cognition, the ability to think about our thinking, to understand the

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