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

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Thank you. So welcome to this next talk on samadhi.

And tamadi is the Buddhist word for being deeply immersed in the meditation,

deeply immersed in anything that we're doing, where that immersion, there is no holding back, there's no resistance,

there's no self-consciousness in a kind of attached way.

There's a giving ourselves over to the meditation, to the attention

to the present moment.

And a lot of that has to do with letting go.

And I think I mentioned some time ago that one of the first instructions that I received

about going into samadhi was in Thailand when first went there to practice.

And I met some monk who said that he was a little bit dismissive, I think, of samadhi.

And he said that samadhi just involves letting go.

Just let go, let go, let go.

But I don't think we need to be dismissive of it.

It's kind of remarkable that if you place yourself in a

nice meditative posture and then let go, that this natural process occurs that is a kind of

a releasing, a freeing, a deepening, a sense of well-being that wells up,

that almost as if, it's almost as if a natural state of being immersed in our activity

brings joy without there be any worldly reason for that joy to be there, except for the complete

immersion in the activity that we're doing, with the meditation we're doing.

And so this deeper release into the meditation, we're releasing a lot of things, but one of the things we're releasing

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