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

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Hello from Redwood City, the Insight Meditation Center. And...

Up. So, continuing with this series on samadhi.

So one of the important approaches to meditation

has a lot to do with how you approach meditation,

how you approach, how you utilize your capacity for attention, for awareness, and for mindfulness,

for knowing what's happening in the present moment, for feeling what is happening in the moment,

for observing what's happening in the moment,

for observing what's happening in the moment.

And I use all these words not to confuse you with too much to do,

but for you to appreciate that we have these different attentional capacities and different people are oriented towards different ones.

And they're all good, they're all useful

for helping us be here in the present moment.

But how we engage it is important.

The idea is not to engage it with strain,

not to engage it with

pushing or

force

or

expectation or strong desire for something to happen or not to be there.

There's a lightness of being.

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