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

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So, hello, and welcome to this next talk on this series on samadhi.

And we've spent some time now on approaching the deep immersive experience of samadhi.

This is where samadhi becomes mature or full. And sometimes the language of being fully absorbed is used.

Sometimes immersed, fully immersed in the experiences used.

And in the Buddhist discussions of samadhi,

it's to enter and abide in J-H-A-N-A-N-A-H-A-N-A.

And I love this expression to abide, to dwell, to rest, to, in these wonderful immersive states.

And so we enter into, and this entering,

we're approaching, and at some point we enter.

And there's this transition.

Sometimes it's a slow transition.

We just find ourselves fully immersed,

and sometimes it's a little bit faster. Sometimes they can feel like we are just happily kind of settling into a body of water. And some people, it's a little bit

troublesome, this image, if they had, you know, some challenging at the water. But it's not uncommon

for some meditators to feel like they're going underwater and very happy and very peaceful.

And when they come out of Janna or out of the steeper immersion, it feels like they're coming up out of the water,

head surfaces, and then they can gently

kind of let go into the samadhi,

and they're happily going into this peaceful world.

The Buddha used the analogy of,

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