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 Samadhi series.

And today's talk is, kind of one of the themes of it is calm, because the general topic this week is the fourth Janna. And the fourth

genre represents a very profound calming of the mind, calming of mental activities. And if you understand

that a lot of the agitation that we have comes from thinking, as the thinking

quiets down, that doesn't trigger agitation. And we appreciate how the mind that is for and against

things or reacts to pleasure and pain,

quiets down and calms down,

the relationship to pleasure and pain recedes and quiets.

And surprisingly enough, we might not feel much pleasure and pain.

Certainly there are times when pain gets accentuated

by our preoccupation with it, by our vigilance against it,

by our meaning-making and fear and predictions around the pain we feel,

the micromuscles around the pain tighten up. The pain just seems larger in the minds,

like a magnifying glass on it. But when we no longer are caught in the preoccupation with pain,

sometimes even the pain recedes into the background. And in this quiet and calming of mental

activities in the fourth genre, the pain and pleasure of all conscious recedes

and becomes irrelevant, disappears from the mind.

And it represents a kind of

a certain kind of coming into fullness or completion,

a certain kind of the into fullness or completion, a certain kind of the gradual calming of the mind that goes on throughout samadhi practice. And the samadhi practice has a general

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