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.

And right now we're discussing the insight into Dukha,

insight into suffering or stress, unsatisfactoriness.

And my hope in giving these talks now about suffering,

that most of you have been along for much of this progression of practice of

teachings from the beginning of the year,

with samadhi cultivating a deep capacity to be calm and centered

and quiet, still, peaceful, relaxed. And also these talks about insight, the deep capacity to be present for the changing nature of this world.

And in doing so, to be aware of how we resist that change, how we stop it, how we hold on to it,

how we struggle with it. And one of the ways we struggle that Buddhism emphasizes

is one way or the other, we're clinging to something. We cling to how things were, we cling

how we want them to be. We cling to how things are. we cling to how they should be, we cling to our beliefs,

our thoughts, we cling to identity, we cling to our possessions, we cling to people.

There's no shortage of things that we cling to, we get attached to, we hold on tight.

And all of those can be felt if you're really deeply flowing in inside practice as a resisting

or interfering with a changing, moving, in constant flow of experience. It's a way of standing in the river

and putting upper hand and telling the river to stop, maybe even putting the hand in the water to

kind of stop it. And you can put a lot of effort into stopping the water. But the water will flow right around your hand.

So there's something we can feel, we can feel at some point, and deeper the practice goes,

how clinging and attachment doesn't serve us.

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