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

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So, hello and welcome to this next talk on a series on insight, the deeper insights into what's usually

called the three characteristics. But in the early teachings of the Buddha, these are called

the three perceptions or the three

recognitions. That as practice deepens, we begin in recognizing something that's invaluable

in helping us on the path to freedom, to liberation, helping us in the path to connect to the deepest parts of well-being

that we can have. And the first of these recognitions is a deeper and deeper recognition,

perception, a wisdom around inconstancy, impermanence, change, things becoming different.

The second one, which is a topic right now, is a deep recognition, deep wisdom, understanding

about duca. And the word duca is usually translated as suffering when it's translated into English.

And as such, it may be a never-ending process of becoming wiser and wiser about how we suffer,

how we have stress, de-stress, how we have, make things worse for ourselves.

And in doing so, to understand something more and more about the opposite of suffering.

Maybe in short-hand we call it happiness. And sometimes maybe peace, because the primary

way the Buddha talked about, positive emotions that come into play with the deepening practice,

with the freedom, is happiness and peace. Or maybe the opposite of, is some deep feeling of

contentment or satisfaction or being at home in ourselves, in this world, in this body.

And so to begin appreciating that we can have wisdom,

a deep understandings can arise from suffering itself.

Rather than seeing suffering as only a problem,

only something unwelcome, only something overwhelming, only something that we

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