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

Please visit our website at adioderma.org. So hello and welcome to this meditation session

that is part of the series on samadhi.

And the last two days I've emphasized that,

or taught how samadhi can be understood as a

progressive process of calming the mind,

stilling the mind in a way that leaves the mind not frozen or offline,

but leaves it kind of luminously awake and clear

and kind of a very peaceful, lucid awareness.

And then yesterday I talked about the process of

stilling the mind,

stilling the mind, not just calming it, but

letting go of clinging, a progressive process of clinging less and less and less,

less contraction, less tightness, less holding on,

until there's a feeling of kind of a phenomenal degree of freedom in the mind

because it's not disturbed by anything and it's not clenched or held

or resisting. It doesn't feel safe because that's too active to have that feeling and idea,

but it's a situation of predominant, pervasive kind of safety that is so safe, that you have safety and danger

disappears. And then today I want to emphasize that samadhi going through the janas as a progressive

stilling, quieting, or releasing, or dropping,

the activities of the mind that involve selfing, that involves taking something, using it to define who I am, commentary about oneself,

having concepts and ideas of who I am in some way that we're living in those concepts and

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