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

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So, hello everyone and welcome back to this series on Insight, that is following the longer series on Samadhi.

And so after a break for this last week, I want to pick up again and now do a series of talks on the first

primary insight of insight meditation, which is insight into the experience of change, of inconstancy,

of impermanence, and that things are constantly shifting and changing

and arising and passing, appearing and dissolving and disappearing, that this is a really

central aspect of human life and becoming wise about the changing nature of life,

is something that a lot of wisdom traditions, maybe all wisdom traditions, emphasize.

And Heraclitus is the one who said, you can't step in the same river twice.

But even more wisely, the rest of the quote goes,

you cannot step in the same river twice

because it's never the same river and never the same person stepping into it.

And the, so even you are changing, just as the river is constantly changing and

shifting. And we often have ideas that don't change with the changing nature of reality.

We have ideas that things are going to be this way forever.

And some things that disappear will never come back.

But the art of and the power of mindfulness practice is to appreciate that in our

direct experience, what we're experiencing is constantly coming and going, and nothing stays the same

in experience and what we sense and feel

and the nature of all the different aspects of the human being that come together in the moment.

We're always a change.

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