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

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And then to offer some few words about the practice here this morning,

there is something in our tradition in our tradition, called clear,

usually called clear comprehension, clear understanding. And it has to do with how we engage in the daily

activities of our life. That if we're standing, there's a clear understanding.

That's what we're doing.

There's a clarity around standing.

As if standing, process of standing, is the thing to be in, to inhabit, to be present for.

And so there's this clarity.

It's almost like the standing is standing up into the clarity.

So it's really clear understanding. I'm standing. It doesn't have to be so verbal.

Like now I understand that I'm standing, but there's a clear connection to the fact that now I'm standing.

The clarity. If you're walking, the clarity about walking,

this is walking, I'm clearly walking,

walking in clarity that this is what's happening now.

If you are getting tea,

clarity of this is what's happening this moment.

You're not getting tea and thinking about something that's far away in other times,

other places, or some fantasy.

You're just really, there's a feeling of this, I'm clear.

And so that you're making tea.

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