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

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So, welcome to our meditation down here at Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Marin County, just north of San Francisco.

And beautiful rolling hillsides with lots of oaks and some redwoods trees.

And with some wonderful wildlife wandering around.

And maybe we'll see some walking behind me in the hills.

So we continue in our samadhi practice, and I would like to read to you as we start the briefest description of the Therajana.

The texts say that the ancient practitioners, the noble ones, described the third jana this way.

Equanimous and aware, one abides in happiness. Equanimous and aware, one abides in happiness. The word for

aware is sati, more commonly translated as mindfulness. So it would be equanimous and mindful.

One abides in happiness. This idea of abiding in happiness.

So to assume a meditation posture.

And if you've been sitting regularly in a meditation posture,

maybe the familiarity, maybe there's something about assuming the posture,

that's a happy thing, a comforting thing.

Yes, to entering into this quiet time for the body, be still.

Yes, to putting aside the responsibilities of the day, and to abide in the present moment, the simplicity of here and now. With nothing else to do, with nothing else to do,

but to sit quietly.

And to gently close your eyes.

Okay. your eyes. Feeling again, anything that feels nice for you, with the eyes closed, the body still,

and into that niceness, take a few long, slow, deep breaths. Breathing in deeply and exhaling a long exhale.

Letting go as you exhale. I'm I'm I'm

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