The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.

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So good morning and welcome.

And returning here with the sun, beginning to come in through the windows.

And I think in the past I've had a little umbrella or something there in the way,

but tomorrow I'll see if I can not have it so bright on my face.

It's a little bit much for me even.

But I can't complain too much about sitting in the light,

the light of samadhi, the light of insight.

And so welcome to this beginning of part two of part one was the, I guess we had about 60 talks on samadhi, and I don't think there'll be so many this time around, but this part two is

insight. And these two are paired in Buddhism, samadhi and vipasana. Vipasana is a poly word.

Pasana means to C, and V is an emphatic prefix.

So to see in a special way, to see, as often translated as clear seeing.

And the relationship between samadhi and the Pāsana, samadhi and insight, is variable.

Different teachers will have different emphasis.

And one of the contributions in the 20th century of Burmese Buddhism was to introduce people to a way of doing

insight practice without the need for a very intense level of samadhi, intense level of concentration.

And so that was called dry vipasana because it wasn't supported by the strong degree of

pleasure, joy, and happiness that can pervade the body when there's

samadhi. However, the way that it was taught to me in Burma, this so-called dry samadhi,

dry vipasana, came along with a lot of concentration anyway.

It wasn't to the degree of the very intense way

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