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

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So, hello, and welcome to the second talk on the second jana, the second absorption,

the second state of deep samadhi, immersive samadhi.

And it's a state where the word immersion is particularly apt,

that we're feeling, feel like we're immersed in a state of maybe calm, clarity, and unity. So I'm going to read to you the standard description of this state from the ancient

texts that I read yesterday. With a stilling of applied and sustained attention, a practitioner

enters and abides in the second Janna, consisting of joy and happiness

born of Samadhi.

Inner, with inner clarity and unity of mind, free of initial and applied attention.

The practitioner fills, pervades, saturates, and permeates this body with a joy and happiness born of samadhi,

so no part of the body is not touched.

So one of the great delights of this kind of deep concentration is kind of like we have joy and happiness

for no reason, or to say it more accurately, that it's a joy and happiness that's born from

the samadhi, not from external conditions,

not because wonderful things happen to us in the world. We get what you want. We get pleasant

experiences in the world. But rather, it's not something that's not dependent on the world,

being any particular way, but it is dependent on being

deeply settled. And deeply settles here means, among other things, that there's a lot of calm,

that there's a lot of unity, a lot of settledness, coming together just here.

We're not fragmented. We're not divided among ourselves.

We're a feeling of being whole.

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