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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So hello and welcome to this third talk on the signs or symptoms of non-clinging. So as a kind of reviewing little bit that this follows up last

week where the focus was on mindfulness of the bundles of clinging and the source of a lot of

suffering and as we untie the bundles, as we dissolve the glue that holds together, the infrastructure of attachment of clinging

grasping that we have, the continuity of resistance and

pulling away, closing down, all the different variations of what Buddhism might call

attachment or clinging, that the release of that non-clinging has symptoms,

leads to senses of well-being.

And we start discovering that our clinging, our grasping, our resistance, our closing down,

interfere or cover over our capacity to be happy, our capacity to feel contentment at ease.

And even when there's times of great challenge, it's possible to stay connected to some special kind of feeling of

that being present, being here feels good, feels right, being connected to reality as a goodness to it, as a rightness

to it that might not be

happiness, but maybe we could call it a darmic happiness or a kind of symptom of well-being. So one way

or the other, one of the symptoms of letting go well is in the

family of happiness, happiness, joy, ease, lightning up.

And I've learned through too many painful experiences

that if I let go and the consequence of letting go is I feel neutral, then I haven't really let go.

And because I've been doing this Buddhist practice

so long, letting go sometimes can be relatively easy for me.

And so I've let go of situations where that were

challenging, where maybe I was angry or upset somehow. I let go and I thought I had let go but I ended up feeling neutral. It's like okay I'm back to

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