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... Hello and welcome to this series on Samadhi. And Monday I talked about some...

Samadhi as simplicity.

Yesterday as samadhi as settling, settledness,

and today as steadiness, as steady attention to the present moment,

a steady attention to the experience we're having that we're really settling on.

And this idea of steady attention is closely connected to the idea of continuity of attention,

continuity in the present moment.

And the idea is to hang out with the breath so we get absorbed, so we get more engaged in it.

And some people find this hard to do because they expect that somehow they'll find in the breathing something wonderful.

Like there's a key there or some pleasure there

or something profound there to be found.

If they keep looking at the breathing,

the breathing is a solution.

And the real kind of warmth and beauty and delight of samadhi

is not found in the object that we pay attention to,

but in the subjective experience of being intimate or connected or steadied, absorbed in the experience we're having.

So we don't want to look for the solution in the experience of breathing,

but something happens in the interactivity, the interaction between us and breathing, us and the object of concentration,

in the way in which we attend to it, the steadiness, the subtleness, the simplicity,

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