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

Please visit our website at adioderma.org. So good morning and welcome.

And so for these weeks now, it is to slowly put together the pieces, the little steps

to understand and to practice samadhi and to give, it's not really possible to, in a short time,

to give all the instructions that would really help understand the elements of samadhi practice.

And so to go through it really slowly.

And some of you might have from time to time be able to follow

along closely to the instructions or the guidance in one day. And some of you won't, and that's okay.

The idea is take it in any way and don't kind of write it off because maybe you're

agitated today or something. Follow along the best you can, maybe even with your imagination,

maybe even remembering a time in your life where something like this

was the case. And so you have, somehow it begins to register deeply, so it's ready in meditation

when it becomes relevant for you. So today what I'm going to do is to say a few words, do a little guided kind of

meditation to start us off, and then do a little exercise that involves opening the eyes,

and then closing the eyes again and then getting started.

And so two things first,

that the topic of pleasure last week was very important because we're using the symptoms

of things going well in meditation,

the benefits of it, as a kind of as a funnel or as a helping us gather

and keep us in the practice.

And with time, there's a direct feedback loop

between really being settled on an object of samadhi and the strengthening of those symptoms.

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