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

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So, hello and welcome to this next talk on samadhi.

And this time I want to discuss the topic of the evidence of samadhi.

The evidence of becoming more settled, calm, absorbed, connected to the meditation process.

And in the language of the Buddha, there was a word for this evidence, the symptoms.

And it is Nimita, N-I-M-I-T-A.

And it's one day, two days, two T's, maybe it's one T, but Nimita.

And it is sometimes has kind of come down into the present times in the meditation traditions of Buddhism

to refer to only one example of the

symptom of meditation. And I'm not going to bother you with what that one example is because

it's really an example of what comes out of a very particular way of practicing

meditation. In the ancient world, there was just lots of symptoms for what, the evidence for

what happens as we meditate. And so that, whatever it is, whatever the symptoms are, what

shifts and change, is meant

to support the practice.

And one of the words that I associate with this is beauty.

And the Buddha called, talked about becoming skilled in the beauty of samadhi. Because these symptoms that we

have, these evidence, have a beauty to them or a pleasure to them or a rightness or a goodness

to them. They had their, sometimes they feel healthy. There's a healthfulness that comes along with them.

And the idea is to be sensitive to them

and include them as part of the range of what we're aware of as we meditate.

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