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

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So good morning and welcome. Good day and welcome.

And one of the invaluable characteristics of deepening meditation.

So good morning, welcome.

Good.

So one of the characteristics of deepening meditation

is no longer clinging to anything,

no longer being preoccupied by anything in particular, including experiences

we can have in meditation itself. And, for example, some people are preoccupied by getting

concentrated, and so that's the focus and that's what their mind is concerned with.

But as meditation goes deeper,

there's less and less clinging preoccupation

about anything.

And it's a little bit of a paradox or something

that deepening meditation,

you can't try too hard to have it happen

because then you're focusing on something.

So when we get to the second, Jana,

one of the characteristics is inner clarity.

In my understanding, clarity, like when the fog has cleared,

and you can't put your finger on where the clarity is or you can't take out

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