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

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Good morning and welcome to our morning meditation.

And in that addressing the issue of insight as part of our practice,

there's a number of ways of attending to our experience that allows for insight.

And as we do, mindfulness practice, it's useful to have a range of options of how to attend,

which means how to be aware.

And one of them is very simply to know our experience.

The second is to feel or sense the experience,

experientially, meaning through the body.

And these two are the kind of foundation for developing insight. And what they have in

common is experiencing things in the present moment. That insight is a present moment experience

moment experience experience understanding.

And they come from other attentional aspects as well,

present moment experience ways of knowing, experiencing, being aware.

But these two, and they are, in order for them to carry on their function for bringing us insight,

they both have to be calm, calm knowing, calm sensing, or spacious knowing, spacious sensing and feeling.

Sometimes I think of it as giving breathing room to whatever experience we're having in the present moment.

So not to be caught up in the experience with judgments and commentary, but just to allow each thing to be

as it is and to discover the joy and the freedom in calmly knowing this is what's happening,

in calmly sensing and feeling how it is, and how much we are sensing and how much we're

feeling, knowing, is a little bit individual for each person. But there's a kind of a gentle

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