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

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So hello and welcome.

So today, for this week, I'm going to introduce a new section of this year-long

series, first on, I guess it was about 60 talks on samadhi, and then about 50 talks maybe on insight,

and for this week at least, talks on the result of samadhi and insight, samadhi and vipassanam.

And one of the ways that the Buddha refers to it is as knowledge and vision,

sometimes just as knowledge, sometimes just as vision. I'll call this section of the

long series, new vision. Because as we practice, we begin to have a new vision of what's possible.

And because we know what's possible,

we've had the experience of what's possible.

And that knowing it's possible or having a vision of what's possible is not something abstract.

It's not some, you know, read a book and we know the potential,

but it's to have direct knowledge, direct experiential knowledge,

and to have a direct kind of immediate sense of vision of what's

possible either because the memory of it is so lives full so fully in us in a sense that we really see that it's just ahead, just right here available.

Or it's possible that to have a vision because we actually see freedom here and now.

It's just like right there, sitting there on our left shoulder, or in the back of the head,

or in the eyes, or there's some kind of, maybe it's not in any place, but there's a feeling, a sense

that there is a place of non-clinging, non-attachment, and that that vision can become quite strong. And they can come with a

tremendous faith or confidence. And one way this confidence is described is confidence based on knowledge or knowing,

or some translators that will translate it as experiential confidence.

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