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

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So welcome to the next talk on samadhi.

And before I do, I'd like to make the repeat-day announcement I made on Monday

that IMC partly inspired from what this YouTube community did three years ago,

raising money for the refugees from the Ukraine.

I mean, I'm C.

I'm C is inspired to do this again for children in areas of great crisis

who are facing famine and illness and injuries of all kinds.

And the way we want to do this is with making donations to save the children,

a wonderful organization that does wonderful work in the world for children for many decades now.

And so we started this week the fundraising drive, and we're about a third away to what I'm

hoping is the inspiring goal for us.

And if you're interested in joining together and participating in the kind of the collective

effectiveness of a community doing something with each other, you can go on the IMC website.

The homepage has a couple of places where you can get to the

Save the Children donation page that we're using that is specific to IMC. And is the red banner on top of the website and there's a

what's new section of the homepage. there's a what's new section of the home page and there's a notice as well

so thank you and in talking about that the gathering together of a community and the power that can bring

so in meditation the gathering together of ourselves community and the power that that can bring. So in meditation, the gathering together of ourselves into a unified whole,

enter into a state of being that's called samadhi,

gives the individual a certain power that can can be used for good in the world

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