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

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Hello everyone, welcome to our meditation.

And as we go into the least evoking or exploring, considering the second Jana,

one of the features of it is that characteristics of it,

is a feeling of experience of unity or unification.

The word is ecodi, which loosely can be described as weaving into one, bringing everything into a oneness of sorts.

And so it's a feeling of that

of inclusion,

that everything is included

in such a way that

we're not apart from anything

and nothing is apart from us. Everything in a certain way becomes subject.

There's no object for the experience. And what's operating here is the word inexperience.

Logic, understanding, common sense can give us a subject-object distinction.

There are things we focus on, which are objects.

And that's part of normal consciousness.

But we experience the world very differently in very deep meditation.

And it's not meant to be a metaphysical statement

or provide us with philosophical truths about stuff.

It's just a nature of experience.

And if you're absorbed in reading a good book or you can say you become one with it,

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