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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So hello for this third talk on the bundles of clinging.

The bundles of clinging.

So the Buddha puts a tremendous emphasis in being free from grasping, clinging, attachment.

But you don't want to be in a hurry to do that to do it automatically and quickly. You want to understand

well what it is that you're attached to and how you're attached. You want to become a student of grasping, of clinging. Take a time with it to really know it well.

Because if you know it well, then you'll see its tricks in the future you'll see how it operates you'll

see it coming and you can leave it alone but if you haven't really understood it

all kinds of attachments will creep up on you and catch you by surprise and then you have to do the much more difficult work of learning how to let go or how to not have them interfere with the full freedom of your life.

And the, the, the Buddha talks about five areas, primary areas for attachment, for clinging. And because we have multiple attachments to these and we keep those

attachments, we keep them close to us, we're attached, he calls them bundles. We bundle them up together and there's five different bundles.

And Monday I talked about appearances, the physical appearances,

what we perceive through our senses, the attachments to that.

Yesterday it was about feelings, Vedana, pleasant and unpleasant,

and today it's about recognition, perception,

sanya and Polly.

And this is a simple acts of perception that involve a recognizing, a recognition, recognition of what we're seeing.

And what we see is not the raw basic sense data coming in.

What we see is based on often about memory and concepts and ideas and a process of selection that we select

what we want to focus on and we have preconceived ideas of what we're seeing and and it's very innocent some of it and we do

it kind of in a sub vocal sub almost subconscious way throughout the day where if you're having a meal and it's a soup and so you

don't pick up the fork, you pick up a soup spoon. And you know you recognize the difference between them you know

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