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

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Hello and welcome to this continuing series on Insight, the Insight of Insight Meditation.

And currently we're looking at the topic of Dukkah, the Pali word for suffering or stress, de-stress.

And one of the learnings to be had through meditation,

through mindfulness practice, through samadhi practice,

is that our experience of ourselves,

our experience of the world, our experience of others,

is very much contingent upon the state of mind we have.

And if we don't know that, then we assume that whatever way we're experiencing the world ourselves is how

things are. But if we begin appreciating the state of our mind, how stable the mind

heart is, how concentrated it is, how calm it is, how open it is, how receptive it is. The whole slew of ways, how clear the

mindfulness is, the state of the mind has a big influence in how we know ourselves, how we know

others, how we know the world. And because the state of the mind can vary

quite a bit, how we understand see the world and ourselves can vary quite a bit too. And this is a

radical thing to understand, and very different than how most people, I believe, go about their

day. Most people don't know that there's a huge range of states of minds in which we can live in.

And so to not take as authoritative whatever way, whatever state, whatever view that we have at any given time.

And so the state of mind is fluid and changeable, and it becomes more so when we are a meditator, when we learn how to let go, we learn to get

focused, we learn to become calm, we're moving through in between different states

of mind.

And we begin appreciating that whatever state of mind we in is just a state of mind for now.

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