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

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So hello and welcome.

And welcome to this meditation session.

And that topic these days is insight.

And insight, I think it might be useful to see kind of the word play, a little bit around the word insight,

in that it means something similar to having something in view.

If it's in view, then it's within eyesight, something we can see.

So in sight is something that also comes into the domain of our mind's eye, our perception.

So sometimes I consider insight to be closer to revelation than it is to understanding.

Something we don't search, we don't analyze, we're not, but something comes into view

when we walk up a hill and then we see the surroundings that come into view.

There's somewhat of a receptive quality to it, a discovery.

Reality appears to us rather than we going to reality.

And mindfulness meditation is the meditation practice

where we become available to have things in view. The direct experience of

our life comes into view because our distracted mind takes us into the past, the present,

into fantasy, into commentary, into planning, has quieted down.

The mind is not jumping around so much.

And so now we've come to a place where there's an amazing view,

and we don't have to work at seeing that view. We just sit here

quietly, keeping it in view, keeping it in sight, allowing what's here to show itself to

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