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6: RIGHT EFFORT*
Cultivating this way of living with the attention,
the patience, and the perseverance that it takes to cultivate a

fruitful life. One prevents the arising of unwholesome states,
and the generation of wholesome states by guarding the
sense-doors and the restraint of the sense faculties.
The unwholesome states are described as those relating
to thoughts, emotions, intentions and the five hindrances
of sensual thoughts, doubts about the path, restlessness,
drowsiness and ill will of any kind.
Sensual thoughts and desires are eliminated by effort,
includes anything related to sights, sounds, smells, tastes

and touch – restraining of the sense faculties.
Ill will are eliminated by effort, includes any form of aversion
of hatred, anger, resentment towards anything or anyone.

7: RIGHT MINDFULNESS*
Developing “presence of mind” through the moment-
to-moment awareness of meditation practice, including
mindfulness of breathing, mindfulness of walking, and
mindfulness of bodily sensations.
It is interpreted as “bare attention”: never be absent
minded, being conscious of what one is doing and being

mindful of the dhammas that are beneficial to the Buddhist
path. Mindfulness was a means to prevent the arising of
craving, which resulted simply from contact between the
senses and their objects. It aids one not to crave and cling
to any transitory state or thing, by complete and constant
awareness of phenomena as impermanent, suffering and
without self.

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