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

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Hello, and... Hello and welcome back to IMC, those of you who are with me, especially to Spirit Rock.

And I think it would be nice if I could broadcast every day from a place like Spirit Rock outdoors.

And it's not so convenient to find a place that's quiet for that purpose.

But this works to be here.

So we're continuing in this practice of samadhi, and there is a variety of happiness,

joys, that are elicited in the practice of samadhi, and beginning to appreciate

the different kinds of well-being that come along, and helps the process.

Clinging to it, striving for happiness is not so useful, but recognizing it or allowing it

and valuing it when it happens is helpful.

So in the beginning of the practice of going into the Janhas, there is the happiness of the joy, the kind of happiness

of for the time being, at least during the time you're meditating, the kind of happiness, the kind of being, being ethical. Here and now, in this state, in this body, we're not going to cause any harm. And so that's there. There's the happiness that's a contentment that just for now we have enough.

We have enough to be sitting quietly and closing our eyes to meditate.

We have enough shelter, enough clothes, we have enough food, maybe just enough enough.

And to have a contentment rather than a feeling of lack.

And then there's the happiness of no longer being caught up in preoccupations, no longer

being caught up in the concerns for, you know, our challenges in the world.

Not to put those challenges away or deny them or repress them, but for now they are left

outside the meditation hall.

So the happiness of not being preoccupied.

And then there's the happiness of seclusion of having left things outside the metaphorical meditation hall.

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