In this talk, Renata explores clear seeing (vipassanā) as a central aspect of the Buddha’s awakening and of the path of practice itself. Drawing on the Buddha’s insight into dependent origination, she reflects on the conditioned, interconnected nature of reality, and on the three characteristics of existence: impermanence (anicca), suffering or unsatisfactoriness (dukkha), and not-self (anattā). Rather than presenting these as abstract ideas, the talk brings them into direct relationship with lived experience, showing how suffering deepens when we take thoughts, emotions, and sensations to be solid, personal, and enduring.

Grounded in an embodied approach to mindfulness, this talk emphasises that insight arises not through thinking about experience, but through turning towards it directly. Renata explores how mindfulness creates space around reactivity, and how inquiry helps reveal the deeper layers of experience — including feeling tone (vedanā), the felt sense, and the ways we cling, resist, or identify. Through this lens, the body becomes the doorway to wisdom: a place where habitual patterns can soften, and where a fresher, truer relationship with life can begin to emerge.