Ken McLeod

> So when I say, “Bring attention to this,” it means experiencing what is actually going on when you are doing these things—experience what is going on in you when you are talking; experience what is going on when you are moving (that’s “right action”), experience what is going on when you are working.

> And it’s an exploration. I heartily encourage each of you to explore—what does right effort mean for me? Because the synonym for effort in Buddhism is enthusiasm. And when you feel enthusiastic about something, you pour your energy into it, and you’re pouring your energy into it in a good way. So it doesn’t have any of this Victorian nose-to-the-grindstone, stiff-upper-lip, grin-and-bear-it quality. And so there’s a very interesting exploration of what prevents me from being able to engage this activity with enthusiasm. That’s a very, very interesting inquiry.