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

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So, welcome to this next talk on the Samadhi series.

The fourth talk on the fourth Jana.

And some people call Janna, just call it Janna.

Some people call it absorptions.

Some people call it immersions.

Some people have in the past.

Many years ago, they used to call it trances.

They didn't quite know what it was and um

there are states of wholeness uh of unification where we're not divided from with it with ourselves we're not

uh distracted or our attention is not pulled in different directions.

And it's a pleasure to come together and have all of us here, all of ourselves,

engaged in the same thing at the same time.

And to really get into it, to really be absorbed in it and give ourselves over to it, there's a joy

that comes. I think human beings, and I think animals too can have a, there's a joy of certain kind of certain types of

completely giving ourselves over to something that's really enjoyable and pleasant and there's a

kind of more than just pleasure there's a kind of happiness and delight and thrill and

of kind of giving ourselves over to it or losing us,

not losing ourselves, but kind of fully giving ourselves over to something.

And I think I told the story sometime recently, but that many years ago I came out of,

out of the street, was raining, and there was a car across the street where there

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