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

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Nice to see you all. So tonight I'm going to continue on the series of talks that I'm doing on.

How much effort do we need to apply to our practice?

How do we, not only our practice, but to everything that we're doing in our lives,

how do we like choose a direction and have this sustained effort?

So many different elements there.

Two weeks ago I talked about these five factors of endeavoring, these five factors that contribute to like doing stuff.

And the Buddha talked about this and these five factors are

confidence, vitality, integrity, energy, and wisdom. And we can cultivate these and bring them to support us in our

whatever it is that we're wishing to do.

And then last week I talked a little bit about, or I gave this story about Prince Bodie,

he was somebody who didn't want to make effort in practice.

He just wanted to have all the fruits of practice but didn't want to make any effort, didn't want to apply himself.

Maybe partly because he thought it would be nothing but painful.

And I have to say, if I had that idea, I wouldn't want to do it either.

But then the Buddha gave him some teachings that were about this idea of resolve.

Like you have to have a certain amount of resolve, Aditana.

And then I and packed that a little bit.

What does that mean?

And then today, I'm like to like build on that and

it's perfectly fine if you weren't there for the earlier talks but what are some of the things

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