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

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

And in the week of the third Jana.

And the instructions in meditation that's given for the third jana is very simple.

The actual things that we do, it says that one enters and abides and experiences happiness in the body.

So when enters and abides in this deep state and when they experiences the happiness of the body, that's the instruction.

The most active instructions experience the happiness, almost the most active.

And then it goes on to say, give this instructions. So this, if you want to do something,

if you're a doer, this is what you actually do in the

third janum. You would pervade, saturate, and permeate this body with happiness. So no part of the body is not touched.

I mean, it's kind of remarkable instructions to spread to

happiness around the body so that the whole body feels happy.

Now, whether the word should translate it from Polly into English

should be happy, our happiness is a person dependent. Each of us will have a different relationship

with different words and different inner states. So it's in the family of happiness states.

So maybe it's contentment.

Maybe it's a sweetness.

Maybe it's a deep sense of being cozy and comforted.

Maybe it's a kind of warm, glowing sense of aliveness.

Maybe it's a kind of glowing, happy feeling of peace in the body.

So, you know, the idea is to here is not to take some impersonal idea of what these words are, but to make the words personal.

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