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

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So, hello everyone, and welcome to Spirit Rock, Spirit Rock Hill hillside that is, I think behind me in this direction is up in the heels

there is the spirit rock meditation, the actual meditation hall from where I'm teaching a

retreat today this week. And one of the ways that Spirit Rock is designed is that you have to be

outdoors to go between almost anything. And so there's a constant going outdoors and experiencing

the land, the sky, the weather, the turkeys, the different animal yesterday. There was a beautiful,

the day before yesterday there was a really beautiful, a healthy looking coyote stocking the hillsides up here

and now i showed some of you there was this white egret that's been here

so welcome and for the meditation today, and on continuing the exploration of samadhi, the descriptions of the

Janos, each of them is different, but they all contain similar wording, and that is one enters and abides in these

states of being. And so this idea of it's entering. It's not staying apart. It's not staying up in the

head, looking down, but it's dipping into, it's entering.

In one way that I understand this, or helps to understand it, it's entering into an embodied state,

but an embodied state that is not exactly our physical body, but rather the sensations in the body that are born from the

meditation, from being settled, from being connected, being unified, calm, clear.

Just as if you get angry, you can feel new body sensations in your body.

And if you enter those difficult sensations, maybe you'll be more angry.

So when we start getting kind of one more involved with meditation,

then there are these samadhi sensations

that we can enter and abide in,

which I take to be rest in, enter and rest in them.

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