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

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So welcome to this now the 19th talk on samadhi as we go very slowly into this topic and avoiding a headlong dive into samadhi,

an assertive kind of approach to really getting it

and being deeply concentrated,

but almost allowing it to grow in its own,

partly out of becoming more and more familiar

with your inner life,

your inner life of attention,

the different ways of being attentive, the different ways of being aware,

the different ways that we can begin gathering ourselves together,

becoming composed, being settled, being gathered here,

all of us who we are. And for each of you, this is going to be a different process.

And my words, my instructions, my suggestions are just suggestions or pointers

for you to begin to discover

what works for you, how are you, what's going on,

what's your inner landscape like?

And how could your inner landscape

become whole, not divided, not fragmented?

And samadhi has a lot to do with becoming whole.

And the classic language for that is unification.

And I like to think of it as, you know,

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