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

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So, hello from Insight Meditation Center here in Redwood City.

Happy to continue this series on the topic of insight,

the insight of insight meditation.

And currently the topic is the insight into inconstancy, the insight into change. And it's not a difficult

insight. Maybe it's almost too obvious that things change and that things are not the same.

But still, we get caught in permanence.

We get caught in that kind of believing this is the way it is.

And to come to freedom in Buddhism, a kind of a deep inner freedom, is we're supported by

staying close to or recognizing in a deep way, or to say differently, not in a continuous way,

how continuously things are changing.

And it's almost as if, or it is like, that if we see change,

we realize deeply we can't cling to anything.

Because as soon as we cling, it's like clinging to the

current of a river. You put your hand into that current. You're going to grab that current,

grab that water, hold on tight, and you come up empty-handed. It might be a few drops of water

on your hand, but the current is not

amenable to being grabbed, and the water just goes out your hands. But some people are constantly

grabbing, grabbing, or they're grabbing within the current, thinking they have it.

And so to begin seeing and feeling the distinction between being in the flow of change and somehow being separated from it or trying to hold on to something.

And one of those concepts, ideas, that takes us out, really far out of the flow of the

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