Practicing the Path: Right Effort

Bear Gokan Bonebakker, Osho

Zen Mountain Monastery, Mt Tremper, New York, Sunday 01/18/2026

In a series of talks on the Eightfold Path, Gokan Osho looks at effort, one of the core concentration factors of the path. Early on in our lives we mostly overreach, becoming competitive or extremely self-critical, and sometimes give up all together. We get ourselves in tangles before we can learn through practice to undo the expectations and measurements, to find the right amount of effort needed to continue on the path and develop the clarity and stability we need.