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

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

And it's the third talk on the third Jana.

And as we go deeper into absorptions deeper into a unified concentrated absorbed state the experience of our body begins to change and one of the ways that i have come to understand this

that first maybe through my own practice i started to feel that the these immersive states I would leave my karmic body behind.

And that one of the bodies we can experience is our karmic body.

And that's the body that we feel and sense that is a product or a byproduct of our reactivity

the ways we've reacted to the world the way that we have resisted tightened tensed by the world.

And now you might want to blame the world for the ways in which you are tense or afraid

or contracted.

And that's okay. But still, it's something which the mind, the inner life,

is doing, the contraction, the tension, the holding on, the resisting. And it's very deep,

and it should have tremendous respect and care and carefulness around this carmic body we have, this body that's conditioned by the regularity or the frequency, which we think the same thought over and over again.

If you repeatedly think that you are

somehow inadequate, it becomes kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy because if it's repeated enough,

it's just depressing, it just kind of drains us. And so that draining, the drain body, I would call

the carmic body. If what you love to do is to watch horror movies and the excitement and thrill

and liveliness of being afraid.

And you do that enough.

And in fact, you tell yourself horror movies in your own mind.

Then that you have a fearful body.

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