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

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Hello and welcome to this next part of the series on samadhi.

And we're in this approach stage of samadhi, sometimes called access concentration.

And as we get more and more settled into meditation,

more settled, more absorbed, more intimate, more immersed in our experience,

this is what samadhi is.

And sometimes samadhi is felt to be any situation not just meditation where we are absorbed in

what we are doing immersed in what we're doing some people will describe this as becoming one

with what we're doing some people describe it as being deeply intimate.

Some people describe it as being kind of one-pointed, gather together, just here, just with

this. And some people describe samadhi more as a state,

a broad, wide, expansive state that is centered fully here with one thing.

Right now, at this moment, at this moment,

sometimes there's a momentary samadhi where we're very

established in the present moment, but the awareness is fully there for one moment of experience

then something very different, another moment, and it freely takes in the range of things

that come in through the different sense doors.

And so it doesn't necessarily have a single object,

which going into deeper samadhi

really usually uses simplifying into a primary kind of object.

And a lot of this different sense stores

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