What kind of effort is needed in our mindfulness practice? What is our effort for? What the Buddha taught about effort and how we can apply it in our lives.
Identification with thoughts determines how we experience the world and who we take ourselves to be. We can free ourselves from those limited identifications and touch the vast expanse of who we really are.
Difficult mind-body states can be a gateway to freedom if we bring a sincere interest and an open, spacious and kind presence to grasping and aversion in all of their forms.