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

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So welcome to this series on samadami.

And today also marks the maybe the five-year anniversary of beginning these YouTube mornings together.

Some of you have been along for the whole ride for five years.

And I'm very grateful for all of you have been along for the whole ride for five years, and I'm very grateful for all of you

who come, and I have some confidence that the goodness of our time together spreads from you into the

world.

So this kind of network of radiating network

of bringing good to the world

is a great thing to be part of.

And thank you for these five years.

So Samadhi, this week we're going to cover the territory more of the approach called

access concentration, usually in English, but the stage of approach, approaching samadhi.

And this is when it's relatively easy to stay in the present moment.

If we lose the present moment, it's almost like it's obvious.

It's easy to come back, or there's almost a call inside.

Come back, be here.

And... almost a call inside, come back, be here. And there starts to be a shift of orientation

where the orientation is towards

the goodness of meditation, the joy, the happiness,

the well-being of meditation, or of concentration, of really

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