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

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Thank you. So, hello everyone and welcome to our 30-minute meditation. And I feel happy sitting down here thinking about sharing with you this theme, this of samadhi,

something that I hold very dear.

And partly because samadhi is something quite special.

You know, nowadays we talk about secular mindfulness

I don't think it makes sense to talk about secular samadhi

at least in my mind

because samadhi has a I have a profound sense of reverence for samadhi.

And to give you a little sense of this, maybe,

is that there are two general movements

of Buddhist meditation, Theravad and Buddhism.

And the way I'm going to say it now is a little bit for the purposes of distinctions.

And they, in practice, they don't actually play out so dramatically different.

But there's still a significant distinction.

And so there's two general movements of Buddhist Terabat and Buddhist meditation.

One is to focus on the objects of attention, and to do that thoroughly is to make everything into an object

and the subject disappears.

The other way to practice is to

focus on being subjective. Everything becomes a subject. All objects fall away and everything

becomes part of the subject, the subjective experience. And samadhi belongs to the latter,

and mindfulness a little more belongs to the former.

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