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

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So hello and welcome to this series on Samadhi.

Delighted to be able to share this topic

in this slow way that we're doing it.

And we're doing it now for a few weeks,

and so as we're going deeper into it,

please always remember

that it's good to start, restart as a beginner, whenever necessary.

Sometimes the art of meditation is to know when is it the right time that we have to practice,

we have to apply ourselves in some way, and when it's time to not apply ourselves, but be more receptive, to be more

allowing to, in a sense, rather than doing the practice, when we are being practiced, when rather

than doing the walking on a walk through the airport here in San Francisco,

you are now stepping onto the conveyor belt that carries you horizontally through the corridor.

And you can stop walking and you're carried along.

And so the nature of our practice changes over time.

And at some point, and this is one of the nice things about practicing regularly for some time,

is that some of the ways in which we are practiced, some of the ways that things are familiar

and a homecoming

and the good feeling, I'm back now in a place I'm really comfortable in, that that begins

to open up a sense of deeper comfort, a deeper feeling of the practice is doing me,

meditation is doing me rather than I'm responsible for every single

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