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 we're now at the point of samadhi.

We're at the phase of the approach, the approach phase, the approaching samadhi.

And the classic way of talking about this is a gathering together or maybe

we can say a coordination of five different factors

come into play

and having these somehow in the field

there to be coordinated

creates a kind of onward movement

onward kind of opening or settling

or strengthening of the state of awareness,

meditation that we're in.

And so to kind of gently,

not try to make anything happen,

but to allow the coordination to happen and then to kind

of gently feel where that onward leading spot is and just rest with it, almost like you're

allowing yourself to be pulled along. So these five coordinated faculties of ours that come into play that become a little bit more pronounced.

And isn't they have to identify every single one.

But the tradition says these are the five things that are starting to become coordinated and working together.

And so the first is these two, the applied and sustained attention, the connecting attention

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