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 samadhi.

And we have now reached the point of immersive samadhi, which the word in Polly is J-H-A-N-A.

And there is some idea that the mology of Janna might be connected to the word for a flame.

And if that's the case, then it's the candle flame which is completely out of any kind of wind.

And so the flame is completely still, but it's luminous and dynamic.

And so this luminosity and dynamism of samadhi

that comes when things are really completely still.

And so we're kind of entering a stillness that has dynamism in it.

And so it's the full stillness is partly fully in the present moment, fully just here.

And to think of it as fully in the subjective experience, not the subjective interpretation of this experience, not the subjective opinion about the experience,

but the subjective sensations of it, the feelings, the direct experience of it.

So, you know, you could watch someone go for a nice dip in a peaceful, quiet, safe lake, and you can just

appreciate that they seem to be just luxuriating in the cool lake in a day when it's really hot

or a warm lake when it's really hot or a warm lake day when it's cold.

But it's out there.

It's kind of objective.

It's very different to go into the lake oneself and feel how subjectively,

oh, this is good.

The subjective experience comes with a feeling, ah, this is good. The subjective experience comes with a feeling, ah, this is good.

Now I'm here.

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