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

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So, hello, and welcome to this series on samadhi.

And... series on samadhi and slow samadhi slowly moving into it and today i want to mention that sometimes i think of samadhi as settling, as a settleness.

Samadhi is settleness.

And when we sit down to meditate,

it's often good to start with the idea of discovery,

to discover how we are.

How are we right now?

And one of the questions you can ask

is, given how I am,

what is unsettled,

that maybe it would be good to settle.

Now, if what's unsettled is something, ideas about things in the world,

something outside of ourselves, we maybe won't settle those things, the problems we have.

But we could settle, what needs to, can be settled, is the mind's agitation, the heart's activation

around things that feel unsettled.

And this is where meditation comes into highlight for us, is how it, when we come back to notice where we're unsettled inside,

then we can ask, now, how do we settle this?

And there's many answers for different things.

One of them, when it's hard to stay focused on meditation,

the mind wonders off a lot.

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