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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So hello everyone and welcome and this week so far these mornings morning

meditation I'm introducing

antidotes to the way minds can often get preoccupied by all kinds of things but certainly by our

stories the mind makes, the beliefs we have, the biases and preferences we have, what attention and what attention

focuses on, and attachments to emotions and feelings and comfort and

discomfort, pleasure and pain, all kinds of things that the mind gets locked into.

And an alternative to that is to have an awareness that has some sense of being part of the whole, inclusive awareness.

I talked about on the first day and the second day yesterday talking about peace peaceful to be attuned to the peace that's

larger or more encompassing than any particular focus or attachment of the mind.

And today, the alternative I would like to offer

is a primary characteristic of theipasana practice inside practice.

And that is clarity.

Vipasana means to see clearly.

The prefects v means kind of an emphatic prefects,

like really see.

And so we could call that clear seeing but to have a sense of

clarity and often we do not have clarity we're seeing through the clouds of delusion, clouds of preoccupations, thoughts, memories, biases, preferences, all kinds of things which we see through. We also see through our belief

systems and our ideas of who I am, who you are, self and other, that it's so deeply integral to our whole sense of being

that we don't even see, don't see, that we're seeing through those lenses.

We don't understand that we see through those lenses.

And an insight we're looking at how to clean those lenses,

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