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

Please visit our website at adioderma.org. Hello everyone and welcome to our beginning of our week, our morning

coming out of Inside Meditation Center here in Redwood City. I'm delighted to be back, having been gone for two

weeks. And I guess I've been gone from you for one week because of the replay we did last week.

So I hope that went well and allowed you all to continue with this deepening of a practice that can happen with samadhi.

Kind of return to that topic at the beginning maybe supports as we go along now

on the insight, a track of this year's teaching.

And as an introduction to this meditation,

I would like to suggest that that one of the benefits of developing samadhi,

one of the benefits of developing insight, is to be able to have a heightened

sensitivity to tension, any tension, any stress that is in our physical and mental and emotional

system. And they could be very subtle. Sometimes it's obvious. It just couldn't be more obvious

that we're living with a lot of tension in our bodies and our minds. And what I'd like to recommend

is that tension is a form of dukkha, a form of stress or suffering,

that is the second of the three important insights.

The insight into things change, the insight into how there's, we add a degree of suffering,

tension to our life. And then the third insight we're going to begin today is into not self.

But to prepare for that, surprisingly perhaps, is that we want to get refined in our capacity

to recognize tension. And chances are that any ongoing preoccupation of your mind involves tension. Chances are that any ongoing strong, maybe difficult

emotion, maybe not so difficult emotion, that we're involved in, preoccupied with, reacting to,

one way or the other, there's tension involved that we're adding to it.

If there's difficult physical sensations, they're difficult in and of themselves, but there might

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