The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.

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Thank you, Jim. So I'm going to continue on the series of talks, talking about like

efforting or making something happen or determination, resolve, you know. or

determination, resolve, you know, these types of things.

And I'm touching into some of the lists and stories

that aren't so commonly spoken about.

They're definitely in there in the suit as I'm pulling them out of there, but not as often

spoken about.

And in some subsequent talks, I'll talk about some of the dangers of what I'm talking about, but I'm not there yet.

So right now we're just going to talking about, you know, just this movement towards an aspiration we have or we have an

inspiration and then how do we carry through and what are the things that get in the

way and how can we find our way through to what's important to us,

what's meaningful to us.

So I'll say very briefly that I started this series talking about the five factors of endeavoring and those five factors are

confidence, vitality, integrity, energy and wisdom. And then I talked about the next week I did a talk on setting an

aspiration and then having this resolve to go pursue that aspiration.

And I did that with the story of Prince Bodie

who didn't want to make any effort

towards something that was important to him and said he was hoping that the Buddha

would make all the effort.

And that didn't work out so well for Prince Bodie. And then last week I talked about, well, why don't we do these things that we set out to do?

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