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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So hello and welcome to this new five-part series this time on the five faculties, and following up on the hindrances, I want to point

out that last week in talking about the hindrances, I talked also about how,

especially the last three hindrances, interfere with our ability to practice. They inhibit action. The first two

hindrances, desire and ill will, they might propel the wrong kind of action.

Greedy desire and hostile ill will.

We act on those, those aren't very good.

In the five faculties, it's a little bit the same thing that the opposite.

So the first two, faith and effort,

involve action, activity, engagement.

And the last three mindfulness concentration and wisdom are which

support action. So the Buddha was said to be a teacher of action.

And that he was a Kamavada, an actionist, maybe. And maybe Buddhism isn't often associated with action if we

when we're in the meditation traditions of Buddhism because in hang on a minute I'm going to

clear my throat. Not associated with action because of in meditation tradition, we sit still,

we're quiet, and often partly because in the West people are such busy minds, spinning minds,

that it's so striving or pushing or trying to do so much that a lot of the teachings is don't do anything relax settle

just be just be don't do just be

however for the Buddha I don't think he ever really said just be. He was a teacher of action, of engaging, being active in the world.

And there are three ways in body, speech, and mind.

They're all activity.

Nothing is static.

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