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

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So So, good morning, everyone, and our good day, welcome. And, um... So welcome to this talk.

This is the fifth talk on the first Jana.

And continuing talk in a wider series on the samadhi.

And samadhi. And samadhi, as I've often said, is a state of being.

It's not a particular mental activity of being concentrated or hyper-focused.

And so it's a state of being that we enter into. And as such,

it's a radically different way of experiencing ourselves than usual. We're always in some state.

And even the expression in English, that person's boy, is that a person in a state?

It's usually meant that they're kind of, something's really unusual about them or odd about them.

But we're always in some kind of state.

And unfortunately, we take some of the states we're in as being normal and ordinary,

that it doesn't just how it is.

But often we're fragmented, we're stressed, we're de-stressed,

we're preoccupied, we're caught in things, and that feels normal.

And there's certain attitudes or even emotions which persist

that can feel like this is just life as it should be

because that's what we're used to.

But when we let go, when we let things fall away,

all the extra, all the unnecessary activity of mind,

even unnecessary activity of heart, even unnecessary activities of the body.

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