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

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So, good day, everyone. Hello, and welcome to this continuation of a series of talks on insight,

the insight of insight meditation that followed a longer series on samadhi.

And that is, all this builds to deepening and deepening

insight. And there are three primary insights that our tradition gives the most emphasis on. The insight into

change, how everything is changing all the time,

insight into suffering, stress, tension,

and then insight into not self.

And the teachings on self, not self,

can be quite challenging for many people.

Many people don't understand it, or it's disturbing, or some people think it's ridiculous

the way it's presented.

And so I want to take our time to introduce you this idea.

It's meant to be a simple, practical idea, this teaching of not self,

that is not trying to introduce any ideas to you,

is not trying to overlay some belief system on you,

but it's supposed to be something that you somehow, in some

certain kind of way, see for yourself. Oh, you'll see something about self, not self, that

stands out obvious to you. You don't have to, it's not a matter of having to believe it.

It's, it's, you have your own insight that maybe is very meaningful for you to see and maybe even satisfying to see.

So we'll get into this over these next days.

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