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

Please visit our website at adi, everyone. Welcome.

And as we come here and begin our meditation,

one of the very valuable approaches to meditation is to when you begin to do so deliberately,

deliberately, intentionally, purposefully,

clearly this is what you're doing.

It's invaluable to sit down to meditate,

and it's invaluable to sit down to

concentrate the mind such a way that it enters into a degree of samadhi.

The Buddha said that to see things as they are in this world

cultivate samadhi and to be able to see things as they are in ourselves, to be able to see things in the

wider world, it's as valuable to clear the eyes in meditation as it is to get a good

night's sleep or to have the basic needs of food and water cared for,

so that there can be the subtleness and the clarity and the...

to be able to be in this difficult world, in a useful way.

So in the same way for samadhi to see things as they are,

and one of the ways to do this is to be actually quite deliberate

that you are entering into a new situation.

If you're going to go to sleep, to do so deliberately.

Just go to bed and people who are sometimes tempted

to bring with them their devices,

maybe have a hard time falling asleep.

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