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

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. You're not going to. So hello and to everyone and and and So for this final meditation on the topic of the week, the symptoms or the consequence of

letting go well. consequence of

non clinging, that when we are able to consequence of non clinging

that when we are able to let go of clinging to something,

take the time to appreciate the after effect the results of that.

And one of the, is that we're able to think better.

And one of the consequences

is that we're able to think better, that when there's a lot of clinging, a lot of

attachments, it isn't just we're attached to one thing, we're being

propelled by momentum of wanting, not wanting, grasping,

resisting.

It's an accumulation, it's a gathering together, it's a, it becomes almost a way by which we are thinking,

we're thinking, motivated or driven by the very force of attachment,

force of clinging, force of preoccupation,

force of worry that we have.

And thinking that comes from that kind of pressure is not usually the best kind of of thinking we can have. It limits the fullness or the full, the full, the full or the deep capacity we have to think to reflect. We think much better, wiser, kinder, more loving, more wiser is probably the word I'd like to use the most.

When we've let go, when we're not thinking is not being driven by clinging.

And so one of the symptoms of non clinging

is feeling and sensing, experiencing a wiser, more useful, more connected way of thinking.

And in meditation that plays out in that we're not so preoccupied we're

not preoccupied at all to think about things having not that have nothing to do with meditation or say it more precisely that have nothing

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