(Insight Meditation Society - Retreat Center) How do we make ourselves growth and realisation? Tracing the historical, psychological and

Two sources of valid forms of knowlege:

– Paccakkha "before the eye," i.e. 'perceptible to the senses'

'direct experience'.

– Anvaya – 'inference'

History of Sudden & Gradual. Aside of the the historical background, these terms have taken on a metaphorical meaning: the talk looks at how these metaphors chart the path of practice, their respective analogies and their images, their framing of the probleme and their respective values and drawbacks. – May these metaphors ultimately have their bases in the differeing mind functions of samādhi (gradual) and sati (sudden)? The speaker, despite little canonical evidence, thinks so.