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

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So, good morning and good day and welcome to this next talk on Samadhi. We're talking about the fourth Jana.

And it's not something that people will experience often and regularly in life,

and maybe occasionally it's experienced in very particular circumstances,

something like this.

But even in meditation, it's not something that is easy to enter into, enter and abide.

But one of the ways maybe to get a feel for it is through the imagination and through some of the

characteristics of it which might appear in ordinary life. And one of those is there's a deep effortless

quality that is highlighted in the fourth genre. Before entering into samadhi, there is a kind of effort

that's being done in practice, sincere effort,

and hopefully an effort that you enjoy doing, that you find a way that it's enjoyable and satisfying,

you look forward to, you know, just like you would forward to certain kinds of activities that are fun to do,

like playing an instrument or maybe

cooking if you enjoy that, or sometimes we put a tremendous amount of effort into, you know,

some sport or something, go for a hike in the hills, and it takes a lot of energy.

But there's a pleasure, there's a joy,

there's a kind of,

maybe a kind of effortless quality

in the sense that we're not having to work hard

against ourselves.

So as we really enjoy the practice

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