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

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Hello everyone and welcome and I suppose the background hasn't changed so much from yesterday

that's...

But I'm actually now back at IMC.

Yesterday I was at IRC, our retreat center in Santa Cruz.

So here I am welcome you to am welcome you to Redwood City.

And I'm delighted to be here with you and to be able to share this time.

And so the topic for this beginning of the year is samadhi.

And when it's translated as concentration,

sometimes we limit ourselves dramatically by focusing on focusing.

We limit ourselves to a particular channel of attention

that sometimes is a kind of a one-pointed laser focus

or an attempt to do this.

And you can... laser focus or an attempt to do this. And

and

samadhi is a practice that

awakens or utilizes

all our

attentional faculties.

So it's something that is

holistic or inclusive of the wide range of ways which we can be

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