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

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So, so welcome to this third talk on the second Jana.

And it takes a lot of settledness.

It takes a lot of capacity to be at ease, to have let go of so much of our preoccupations

and agitation. It takes so much of our preoccupations and agitation.

It takes so much healing and settling to come into the wholeness that allows for the

second John.

And so, but one of the things that can get in the way of it is a mistrust of it.

Somehow a feeling that it's, that if we drop into these deep states of meditation, that we won't, it's a betrayal of the world around us.

We won't, we won't be able to take care of this world, others.

Somehow we won't be able to take care of ourselves.

And sometimes what happens is that people are quick to judge these deep meditation states in a

particular way, and that is they judge them as if this is the true way of being.

Like once I go into this, I have to be this way all the time, that somehow I tap into this,

I won't be able to function in my ordinary life. And so there's a resistance, there's a

reluctance, there's a fear that I won't be able to, you know, be an acceptable person or a caring

person or responsible person.

And this is, you know, if that's the case, it's a little unfortunate.

But what helps to understand is that these are temporary states that are cleansing, that clean us, that provide us a sense of

deep sense of wholeness, satisfaction, peace, well-being. And it isn't that we come back into the

world with all the qualities, characteristics of these deep states. But we do come back refreshed.

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