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

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So welcome to this 11th talk on samadhi.

And the main point I'd like to make is that there's almost an equivalence with samadhi and simplicity.

Samadhi is simplicity.

And one of the things that we can do when we do to practice samadhi is to notice how we are not simple.

And that's important, very important to see the complexity in which we live,

how we get pulled into thoughts and feelings, ideas, plans.

And appreciate that this is what the mind does. It's not a crime. And there's a homecoming that we can do.

There's a way in which too much thought keeps us alienated,

keeps us separate from ourselves, unless we think who we are is our thinking. But we are so much more than that, something deeper.

And so homecoming into this simplicity,

and the more simple we can be with breathing,

the more there's something marvelous that can begin to appear.

And part of that marvelousness is that

it can feel very settled, very sweet, very simple,

just to be alive here with the breathing.

And it's almost like we're entering into a deep place of home so that we can turn ourselves inside out to allow some deep

capacity for peace and subtleness to animate how we live our life.

So there's many ways in which people develop samadhi, but one of the ancient techniques is counting, counting the breath.

And of course, the breath isn't suitable as an object for everybody.

So there are other ways of developing samadhi.

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