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

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Hello and welcome to our meditation.

And in this now multi-week series on samadhi,

we are touching into the topic of Janna.

And Janna is a deep absorption.

It's not something that we storm,

not something we assertively, aggressively expect to experience,

push ourselves to have.

It's a little bit like grace, it's a little bit like grace.

It's a little bit like a gift that we receive.

That we set up the conditions for some deep letting go,

set up the conditions for some deep, settling, steadiness

that leaves us deeply absorbed, deeply engaged, interested,

kind of interest that is almost enraptured in the simplicity of the meditative experience.

And so how we approach samadhi,

how we orient ourselves towards it is very important.

And there is something called the approach stage.

And part of the function of that stage is to reorient us

in a way where we're not selfish, not greedy, not feel like we're

in charge, it's up to us, but orient ourselves with some feeling of receptivity, of gratitude, gratefulness, of appreciating.

There's something more profound operating here than ourselves as the agents of change,

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