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

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Hello and welcome.

I'm sitting here in Redwood City, California at the Insight Meditation Center and the meditation hall.

And it's nice to have you along in this virtual way that we practice here.

And in this virtual way that we practice here. And to introduce the meditation,

seeing is the primary kind of metaphor and activity that's used to describe mindfulness meditation.

The anupasati means to see clearly or the Passanized to see clearly.

But there's a variation of this, which is to have vision.

And vision in English can mean to have some sense of what's possible in the future.

And certainly that's relevant for Buddhist practice, but there's also a vision that we acquire

over time and practice, which is a vision of what's possible because we see that possibility

in the present.

So it's more like seeing a small, like a small degree, seeing something in a small degree and knowing, oh, this is possible to grow.

It's possible for it to be fully present, 100%. and knowing, oh, this is possible to grow.

It's possible for it to be fully present, 100%, not just 1% or 10%.

And one of the visions that comes as practice develops

is the vision that one does not have to cling.

And one starts having a sense, a feel for, or one sees, one knows some characteristics,

some qualities, some feeling, some sight of the space of non-clinging, the absence of clinging,

the open space where there was clinging and now there's not. And it might be in a very small way.

It might be there's still clinging, lots of clinging present,

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