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

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So hello and welcome to this series on having a new vision that as Dharma practice continues and matures

and develops, it provides us with a new vision of what's possible, a new vision of what maybe

not only possible, but a new vision of what maybe not only possible,

but a new vision for a freedom that's in certain way ever-present,

a absence of clinging that's always present in some domain of our experience, that there's an ever-present feeling of availability

of deep awareness, deep awakefulness in this moment.

And it's not just simply a vision of, as I said, of the future

and how what we have to work for, but in some

ways it's right here. Some people might experience it as a radical experience of non-clinging,

or an absence of clinging to anything.

And it's a sense of absence, of emptiness,

that stands out as being really here.

For some people, it's the ending, the cessation,

the stopping of certain, of what has been maybe perpetual, ongoing, stressful thinking and reactivity and

fearing and wanting, that somehow we have a full experience that something has really stopped.

A deep full stopping. That's also a vision. Oh, right here, there is a sense of feeling

or intuition of there is a way that these things can stop. There's already stopped in a certain

dimension of our life, certain room in our minds.

It's like having a big house with, it's been a huge mess, but then one room is cleaned.

And then you know it theoretically, it's possible to clean the rest of the rooms.

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