{"podcast":{"title":"Dharma Seed: dharma talks and meditation instruction","slug":"dharma-seed-dharma-talks-and-meditation-instruction-503230","podcast_index_feed_id":503230,"rss_url":"https://www.dharmaseed.org/feeds/recordings/","website_url":"https://dharmaseed.org","image_url":"https://media.dharmaseed.org/images/DS-rss-logo.jpg","author":"Dharma Seed","episode_count":144,"summary":"Dharma Seed is dedicated to preserving and sharing the spoken teachings of Theravada Buddhism in modern languages. Since the early 1980's, Dharma Seed has collected and distributed dharma talks by teachers offering the vipassana (insight) and metta (lovingkindness) practices of Theravada Buddhism. New recordings are being added continuously from contemporary dharma teachers.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-20T08:20:42.561508+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dharma-seed-dharma-talks-and-meditation-instruction-503230"},"episode":{"title":"Ajahn Viradhammo: Right effort: Cultivating the skillful abandoning the unskillful","slug":"ajahn-viradhammo-right-effort-cultivating-the-skillful-abandoning-the-unskillful","published_at":"2026-09-11T16:37:33+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dharma-seed-dharma-talks-and-meditation-instruction-503230/ajahn-viradhammo-right-effort-cultivating-the-skillful-abandoning-the-unskillful","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dharma-seed-dharma-talks-and-meditation-instruction-503230","url":"https://dharmaseed.org/talks/99414/","audio_url":"https://dharmaseed.org//talks/99414/20260911-Ajahn_Viradhammo-TBM-right_effort_cultivating_the_skillful_abandoning_the_unskillful-99414.mp3?rss=","summary":"(Tisarana Buddhist Monastery) The theme of this Sunday talk: Right effort, cultivating the skillful, and abandoning the unskillful. Luang Por reflects on right effort, and effort as a skill, rather than wholesome and un-wholesome, as it is sometimes referred to. Everything that arises, is natural, even a \"murderous impulse\". But whether we follow and cultivate it, is what is important. When the skillful is cultivated, we experience benefit for ourselves, and others, when the unskillful is followed and cultivated, it leads to harm, for ourselves and others. The practice of right effort then, lies, in first recognising fully, and discerning what is arising, and secondly, knowing how to follow the skillful, and abandon the unskillful.","meta_description":"(Tisarana Buddhist Monastery) The theme of this Sunday talk: Right effort, cultivating the skillful, and abandoning the unskillful. Luang Por reflects on…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2348,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dharma-seed-dharma-talks-and-meditation-instruction-503230/episodes/ajahn-viradhammo-right-effort-cultivating-the-skillful-abandoning-the-unskillful/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dharma-seed-dharma-talks-and-meditation-instruction-503230/ajahn-viradhammo-right-effort-cultivating-the-skillful-abandoning-the-unskillful.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}