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

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Hello everyone and welcome to this guided meditation session.

That's part of a larger series of exploration of what the insight of insight meditation

points to.

And surprisingly, the topic for now, I think about seven sessions has been the second

insight, not that we're not surprising that we're doing it, but surprising that we would spend

seven days, seven sessions, talking about suffering, insight into

suffering, the ability to recognize something profoundly important about how we suffer, how we feel

distress, how we get caught in stress, how we get caught in emotional,

unnecessary emotional pain, unnecessary emotional reactivity, unnecessary attachments, clinging,

resistance in our life.

So maybe this will be the last time on suffering

before we move to the third insight.

And so, but one of the very significant approaches to insight meditation is when we're able to

see our suffering, understand, recognize our suffering in highlight or in contrast or together with seeing the first insight, seeing change, seeing inconstancy and non-continuity and impermanence of the experience.

All the ways in which change happens. and impermanence of the experience.

All the ways in which change happens.

And one way or the other,

suffering, what Buddhism is calling dukkha, the very, the thing that the kind of suffering,

the kind of emotional pain that

Buddhism is addressing, one way or the other, involves a, a freezing of the mind involves a tightening of the mind, involves a holding the mind,

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