Welcome back to Buddhist Solutions for Life's Problems, where we talk about how to apply

SJIneedrian Buddhism to the challenges of daily life.

And welcome to Part 3, the final part of our mini-season about Buddhism and business.

If you haven't listened to the introduction yet, we do recommend that you go back and

do that, as it's a brief overview that's helpful context for today's episode.

If you're just joining in Part 3, we're going to be hearing the story of a woman named

Toki Musubuchi, who's a restaurant tour in Kentucky.

This episode is all about how to find the energy to keep working toward your goals, no

matter what you're faced with, especially if you're building something from scratch and

don't have prior experience doing so.

I want to open today with some words from Steve Saperstein, who has been our guide through

all of these episodes.

Steve has been practicing Buddhism and running a business for many decades now, and I called

him to help me understand how to apply certain Buddhist concepts to the world of business.

One thing that he said to me in our conversation really stuck with me, and as soon as I heard

Toki's story, I knew this is what he was talking about.

Here's Steve.

Buddhism is about effort.

In other words, everywhere where you see the word faith in Buddhism, you could almost

exchange effort, okay, in that space, okay?

Now the chaining will give you the energy, okay, to make a tremendous effort.

In part one, we heard the story of Lewis Niavese, an explored what it really takes to develop

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