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

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Hello and welcome.

Welcome to this meditation.

And one of the part of the art of meditation,

the skills of meditation,

is to have an infinite patience.

And the closer we get into samadhi,

the more patient we need to be.

Not patient because it's not going well,

but because it becomes more and more important

to simply set the course and to stay on the course as

stay on the course as if you're going to do this forever.

You're settling in and less and less orientation towards

accomplishing, doing anything, less and less orientation around having desires for something

or escape from something.

Less and less trying to make something happen.

And this way of practicing is useful all along to a certain degree,

but it becomes more and more important.

The quieter, stiller the mind becomes

because the slightest little desire,

slightest little pushing and wanting,

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