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

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Hello, everyone, and welcome to our meditation, beginning of the week, and continuing in this series

for this year on Samadhi and Insight.

And for this meditation, I want to evoke a image from my son's first, second grade, no, kindergarten

class it was, that every day when he came to class, we would bring him to school and bring him to the door of the

classroom. And the teacher would be standing there in front of the door, the open door,

and standing there in a, I would say, a kind of a dignified way,

a kind of a kind way, clear way,

a way that felt like the teacher was fully there for what was coming

and ready to receive, but also not,

but also very competent, very calm and clear and organized and ready for anything. And the teacher would stand there in front of the door, right next to the front of the door,

and every kindergarten

kid who came in, the teacher would greet very nicely. I forget if the teacher shook their

hand or how exactly the greeting went. But every kid, every day, would be greeted with this

very clear way from the teacher.

And so, samadhi is what allows us to be stable, strong, clear,

organized in a certain way, settled on ourselves,

so that whatever experience comes our way,

we can greet in the same way. Whatever comes our way, we can see it clearly. We're not

pushed around by it. We're not caught in it. We're not defined by it. but we're just there with it because with this feeling of

rootedness, this feeling of being complete, whole here, so that each thing that comes our

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