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

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So hello and welcome to this fifth Friday, the Friday, the fifth day of looking at the pleasure of samadhi, that to enter into samadhi, and really is deeply supported by being attuned to pleasure.

The pleasure that comes with meditation.

Not the pleasure that we can get by having really wonderfully soft clothes to meditate in

or the most perfect sensuous cushion to sit on,

but rather the kind of pleasure that begins to radiate or flow from the inside out.

And as we start being sensitive and attuned to the pleasure of the simple, very simple pleasure of maybe being calmer,

and it might be a relative, relative in that we're a little bit calmer than we were, and that feels good.

There's a certain pleasure in that goodness,

maybe pleasure in the relief,

pleasure in the hope that it provides.

It might be that we feel a little and more at ease in ourselves,

at ease with what is difficult,

and that sense of little bit more ease or ease is pleasant.

It might be that there's a calm that begins spreading through the body

or a feeling of being stable after being agitated,

feeling like we're not going anywhere, we're settling down more and more into ourselves.

There could be that there begins to be some joy or delight.

There could be some feeling of ease in the breathing.

I think one of the great experiences

that really was very meaningful for me

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