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

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Hello and welcome to this ongoing series on samadhi.

And this week, since this is Monday,

this week I'll say that the theme will be related to the

literal meaning of samadhi, which is a gathering together.

And sometimes samadhi is called a process of unification, unifying the mind.

But not just the mind, because anything the mind knows and feels and experiences is part of the mind.

Every, you know, our nervous system, neurons,

go throughout the body,

and wherever the nerves are activated by,

whatever stimulates them, is part of the mind. When we die, we don't feel anything.

Any sensation we feel in the body

is part of the overall mind that we live within, we live part of.

And the unification then, one of the key things about the unification of the mind that

is, that's really helpful, is to be grounded in the body, to include the body.

So this unification means inclusion,

an inclusion of as much as we can,

and the people who develop concentrations

without including the body.

Some people live from the neck up. And it's possible to get a kind of a laser

focus, really focused with the mind. Some people who spend the day doing intense, maybe

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