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

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So hello for this second talk this week, and the 16th talk on samadhi.

And as I've often said, samadhi is a unification of mind, mind and body,

gathering together, more than a laser focus. And that unification of the mind has many different

characteristics. One is, it's inclusive. The idea that we don't settle the attention on something

in particular get absorbed and something,

they're pushing things away. There's a way in which there's a kind of feeling of

availability and openness that makes room to be inclusive of all things. And that

movement of inclusion, receptivity,

is a wonderful attitude for receiving and including

the primary subject of the samadhi.

So the primary subject might be the breathing.

That's the standard in which we're

using for this samadhi course. And so this inclusion, this receptivity that in particular can be

felt on the inhale. And then there's a kind of settling into it all, settling into the body,

into the body breathing, so that it's a kind of settling into it all, settling into the body, into the body breathing, so that

it's a settling where we allow all things to settle into it. It's almost like we're

including everything without focusing on everything, without thinking about everything or reacting

to everything, just on the edges. Everything

kind of settled. And so there's different aspects of this unification. So this inclusion is what

I talked about yesterday. And today, the focus is this idea of orientation. And so if some of what I'm

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