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

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So, continuing this series on samadhi, the topic I want to talk about now is joy.

And with that in mind, I want to express my joy and my appreciation, my gratitude,

for all the people who made donations to our Save the Children Fundraising Drive.

And the little meter on the Save the Children's page for IMC shows us a, more than 90% there to those

somewhat arbitrary goal that we set. And so I'm quite inspired and delighted and happy that

this community came forward so much to offer, so it's close to $70,000 there.

And we're actually raised more

because of a donation that came in indirectly,

not through that particular page on Save the Window,

save the children.

So, in some of you, if you would still like to make a donation,

it's a donation well offered and inspiring to have done it together,

and kind of sum total of what we're doing here is quite impressive.

It makes a kind of a loud statement

for some of us of what a community can do is when they come together to do good things in the

world. So thank you. So you find information about it on the IMC website. So, joy.

Joy is part of meditation.

Now, it's not so easy to feel joy.

I mean, it's, when people come to meditation,

they often will begin because of some challenge they have,

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