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

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Good morning and welcome to our meditation.

And one of the differences between mindfulness and insight is that mindfulness is the use of attention that prepares the ground to have insight,

to have a deep seeing, or true seeing, seeing truly, or actually how things are.

And so as we sit today in mindfulness meditation,

the role of samadhi is to be able to sit in the middle

of all our capacities for attention and have them unified in some kind of wonderful

way working together. So attentional capacities we have are recognition, a cognitive knowing

of what's happening. And this cognitive knowing may or may not be verbal.

It might be kind of a nonverbal knowing.

It might also be a kind of visual knowing.

Some people are visual thinkers.

Another attentional faculty is our capacity to sense and to feel with our senses.

And in Buddhism, the idea of sense experience, just like it includes seeing, hearing, smelling,

and the tactile, which is whatever

sensations that are that are born through the body.

There's a kind of sense door that very simply, in the simplest possible way, nose or senses that we're thinking. And I use both words, knowing and sensing thinking,

because thinking sometimes is more than just words and ideas or images. It's also the,

you can feel the physicality sometimes of thinking, the tension or the pressure, the contraction that comes along with it.

Another attentional capacity is to settle back and observe experience.

And this is to perceive without being in any kind of way entangled with experience,

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