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Dharmette: Insight (8) Conditionality

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Buddha, Dhamma, Buddhist, Meditation, Religion & Spirituality, Metta, Theravada, Retreat, Dharma, Buddhism, Vipassana, Insight

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🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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This talk was given by Gil Fronsdal on 2025.05.28 at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, CA. ******* A machine generated transcript of this talk is available. It has not been edited by a human, so errors will exist. Closed Captioning: Download Transcript: https://www.audiodharma.org/transcripts/23739/download ******* For more talks like this, visit AudioDharma.org ******* If you have enjoyed this talk, please consider supporting AudioDharma with a donation at https://www.audiodharma.org/donate/. ******* This talk is licensed by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License

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0:00.0

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

0:05.8

Please visit our website at adioderma.org.

0:15.0

Hello, and welcome to the next talk in this series on Insight.

0:21.8

And this week I'm talking about five different categories of Insight that can be experienced,

0:30.6

that fit into this, at least for the Buddhist idea of insight.

0:36.9

The first day was personal insight. Yesterday I talked about

0:42.7

seeing the difference between appearances and the recognition of the appearance, the

0:53.1

naming of it, the remembering what it is,

0:58.3

and how one has a little bit more to do with the senses, the sense stores, the sense contact

1:03.7

with the world, and the other has to do with how we understand the sense contact, how we

1:09.8

recognize it as something.

1:12.5

And if we have these two completely joined together as if they're the same thing,

1:19.7

then we can't see either one clearly.

1:23.7

And things become kind of solid and have kind of a solid existence.

1:33.1

So if we don't see, so if some food appears in front of us, someone offers us food. And so we see food, but we don't just see food, we see an offering.

1:49.3

But we see it through the lens of, oh, this is something I don't like.

1:56.5

This is one of my least preferred dishes.

2:01.6

And now the whole thing is tangled up together as one big knot of the food, the offering,

2:11.6

not my favorite food, I don't really want this, they should have known better,

2:16.6

and how am I going to deal with this And how am I going to deal with this?

2:19.3

What am I going to do here?

2:21.3

And, you know, it becomes this big nut.

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