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

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So, hello and welcome to this Monday beginning of the week, continuity, continuation of

samadhi, the theme of samadhi.

And today, this week, we begin the fourth Janna, which is in some ways of understanding the deepest of the janas.

Sometimes there's a list of eight janas, but in the teachings of the Buddha, the final four, he calls the four bases, the four kind of fields, maybe.

And the what's called Janna is reserved for just these first four.

But then colloquially, people have, because these are the next four, even deeper states,

that they call them all four, Jannas, all eight of them called Jannas. But we come to a very significant step in the

Buddha's teachings around the fourth jana, because it's a time when the mind is most malleable,

most ready, most at ease, so that it's not, there's no lingering clinging anymore. There's no

lingering resistance or pushing or a preoccupation. And so the mind has gotten very a quantumist, very peaceful, and it sets the stage

for being able to have deep insight and for that insight to be liberating. Now there's very

little filters of concepts, ideas, that stories with which we experience ourselves.

There's a lot of equanimity and a lot of ease with how we are.

And that combination allows for insights to happen, and the mind is just ready to just

kind of receive that in a dissolving, opening way so that all clinging, and some radical

deep way can let go. And that deep letting go is the

ultimate purpose of going through these Jannas. It's not, the purpose is not the Jannas themselves.

So we're going to be a little bit careful not to overvalue the importance of these. They serve a purpose, and the purpose is freedom.

And that freedom can be attained other ways besides the juvenas.

So it's a little bit important not to over-prioritize.

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