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

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Hello to this Thursday talk and the ninth talk in the Samadhi series.

And the last three talks kind of focused on the hindrances.

One of the purposes of those talks was to help you see in yourself the ways in which you

limit yourself through being caught in the hindrances.

The hindrances involve some kind of thinking, some kind of projected concepts, ideas onto the world,

onto others, onto ourselves, some kind of being caught in preoccupation. And in doing so,

we in some degree or other lose touch with ourselves. Of course, people might not feel that or think that

because they think they are their thinking. They are their aversion. They are their desire.

And so there's no problem. They're really in touch with themselves. They know exactly what they want. They know exactly what they don't want. They are their fear. And so, you know, that's who I am. But if we go deeper in, we can feel how these hindrance is being caught in the thoughts and the ideas of desire,

aversion, fear, doubt, regrets, that all these are a kind of limited world.

We narrow the focus to those preoccupations.

And the important thing to understand as we go into Samadhi

is that we become partial.

We become fragmented, we become divided,

we become a limited part of a whole of who we are.

And samadhi is a process of becoming whole.

The classic language of that is unification.

Gathering together all the parts of ourselves

so they can be working and connected

in a harmonious way together.

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