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

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So, hello, and welcome to this series on Insight, the kind of insight that we emphasize in Insight

Meditation.

And this is the end of this week's topic that covers the five different areas that we can call, that involve insight, that we might

define or describe as having insight into something.

And the way that it unfolds is that the way that this week has been discussed is that

there is, there is, there is, that one way of understanding that

has got distracted, someone came here, that it unfolds kind of as a process.

There's an unfolding here, just like samadhi is an unfolding.

And one of the reasons to give the whole series on samadhi before insight is that we can

understand better, appreciate better,

how the unfolding of insight, the deepening of insight, is a form of samadhi itself.

And some of the qualities and characteristics of samadhi come into play as we go along here.

And so the first insight from Monday, the personal insight is very valuable to have, but from the

point of view of the samadhi of insight, it's settling personal issues enough that we can give ourselves over to the process of meditation.

We don't have to be concerned about fixing something or healing anything in ourselves,

because now we can kind of settle enough on ourselves that we can kind of go into this process.

And so as we go deeper,

then into it, part of this is to get quiet enough,

calm enough that we can see the distinction between appearances and the recognition of them,

the mental knowing of them. The simple way of saying it is the sense experience we have,

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