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

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So hello and welcome to this third talk, introducing the topic of insight.

And today I'd like to discuss the difference between mindfulness and insight, mindfulness and vipassana.

The word vipassana is what we translate at IMC as insight.

And some people who practice mindfulness don't translate Bipassana.

They just use the poly word to describe the technique of practice that they do, practicing Bipassana.

And sometimes in our tradition, in using the word insight, we say we're practicing insight meditation.

But originally, back in ancient Buddhism, the word vipassana did not refer to a practice.

It referred to the results of the practice, the way in which the practice led practitioners

to be able to see deeply into their experience.

And that deep seeing is the insight that we see, the insight we come to understand,

the liberating perspective, is the insight that we see, the insight we come to understand,

the liberating perspective, orientation, understanding,

seeing, perception that comes into play in a way that brings this liberation from suffering.

And so mindfulness practice is not the same as insight,

but it's mindfulness practice that leads to the insight,

creates the conditions by which we're present enough

and clear enough in our awareness,

perception, to be able to see clearly.

So this word vipassana, I often, as I have on Monday, kind of described its meaning as being clear,, where the V, the prefix VI, is a

just a prefix of emphasis, so it's emphasized as seeing how we see or strong seeing. So it becomes

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