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

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So, welcome to this 15th talk on samadhi, in this ongoing samadhi series.

And one of the things that this week perhaps you would have noticed is how seldom I use the word concentration.

And in the kind of phrase that I use for each day this week,

the quality that's being emphasized is not a concentration.

So samadhi is simplicity.

Samadhi is subtleness.

Samadhi is steadiness.

Samadhi is spaciousness.

And today, samadhi is sweetness.

And so maybe the closest thing to concentration in those five is steadiness.

But to be steady with your presence, be steady in your awareness.

To be steady here with a practice.

And these five qualities don't have to be separate.

They can be part of the same state that we're in.

We can be sitting in a state of simplicity

where meditation is not something complicated,

it's not an engineering feat.

It's not a complicated thing to do.

It's almost like an undoing, a not doing,

more than it's a doing, and that it is a settling, a settling

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