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

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So, hello, and welcome back to this series on samadhi.

And this week is a little bit of a review

and getting back into the momentum of the practice

after I was gone for two weeks.

And today the emphasis I'd like to make is talking about the unification process

of samadhi. That samadhi practice is a practice by which the different scattered parts of who we are,

scattered energies, scattered thoughts, begin to gather together.

And it's a feeling of unification, feeling of, some people might call it,

feeling of becoming whole, where there's nothing scattered.

There's nothing separated, nothing cut out.

All of us are working together.

And it's a slow process to get there.

Some people are very disconnected from parts of themselves. They are very

connected to certain parts, which feels like it's maybe the whole, but maybe they're not

connected to their body. Some people are not connected to their emotions or some particular emotions.

Some people are so involved in their thinking that almost they don't know their thinking.

The idea is for the field of awareness to open and become wider.

And so this organizing unification can be done in two ways.

What is a feeling of gathering together? And the other is a feeling

that the awareness is getting expansive, open, wider to hold it all. So it's, uh, um, the, um,

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