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

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So, hello everyone, and welcome to this fourth talk in the series titled New Vision,

and that as the Buddhist practice matures,

it provides us with a new vision, new understanding of certainly what's possible,

but also what might be available here and now.

And sometimes people have very clear experience of freedom, of letting go deeply, of very clear feelings of something has radically shifted

inside in a moment sometimes with an experience of freedom, of awakening, of...

And sometimes there's an orientation that with these kinds of more clear markers of maturation

in the practice, that the point is to have those experiences.

And the people are looking for that, wanting that.

But one of the very significant ways of understanding any are looking for that, wanting that.

But one of the very significant ways of understanding any deepening experience or any significant

useful experiences in meditation or in Buddhist practice

is that the experience confirms the practice, confirms the process,

confirms the process of coming together here with our attention, with our dedication,

our faith, our confidence, mindfulness, concentration, the practice of ethics, that it confirms

that this practice that we do, the full scope of it, this growing, this dedication we're doing,

is good, it's really good. It confirms its tremendous value. And what's nice about this word

confirmation is that when we confirm the practice, we're being pointed back to the practice.

If we have some idea, there's an end to the practice and we get some experience,

then we can just kind of be in some kind of enlightened retirement, then we kind of let the

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