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

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So, hello, welcome to this series on Insight, the meaning of insight and how it's practiced

in the Insight Meditation practice.

And in some ways, insight is less interesting than samadhi.

It doesn't have the excitement, the thrill,

the great promise of wonderful feelings of joy,

happiness, and peace.

And there is a way in which it has more of a cognitive role.

It has to do with a clear recognition of something.

And for some people, that's kind of boring.

Or why would that be interesting?

But in this insight meditation understanding,

is that clear seeing, clear insight, allows something very deep inside to release.

It can allow a lot of letting go along that way. But the deepest forms of release, the deepest forms of freedom, are touched with very profound

insight, which we'll get to as we move along here. But that process, the path of insight,

is a process. It's a path. It's a journey, in a sense. And the different kinds of insight that

the person can have can be kind of put together as a journey, as a progression. And sometimes people

follow that progression, but sometimes it's in a different order. So yesterday I mentioned that the important of the five forms of insight is personal insight.

And to understand something unique about yourself that helps free something, helps you be wiser,

helps you to be resolved certain resolve certain kinds of issues,

not be in conflict with yourself or the world or settle something in a deep way.

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