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

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Thank you.

So hello and welcome to this fourth talk on samadhi.

And as follows the, this is still part of the introduction to this topic of samadhi.

More will be revealed slowly as we go along.

So it began with the emphasis on discovery.

This is why mindfulness is invaluable, is to really know oneself as well as possible,

to know all the parts of oneself.

So that when the work of samadhi begins,

all that begins to be gathered together in a certain kind of way in which the inner life

gets organized or oriented. And then to create the attentional space,

attentional context for this gathering together,

it's helpful to have a form of attention to what's happening in the present

that has a lightness to it or openness to it

or non-straining, non-forcefulness

at the same time as not being casual or laxidaisical.

And then yesterday the emphasis that samadhi

is really a stepping away from life as it's

ordinary lived, ordinarily concerns, thoughts and activities, and even feelings.

Not to push anything away, but as deliberately stepping away as going into a shower to clean oneself,

or going to the bathroom, or going to your bedroom to sleep at night.

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