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

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So, So good morning and welcome. And to begin with the meditation.

One of the really useful things to notice, to support dipping into samadhi is the way that the discursive mind, the mind that thinks a lot, thinks about things,

has conversations, talking about things in the mind,

living in images and visions of what the mind can produce.

The way that that keeps us kind of separated from the body,

it keeps us somehow in a part of the brain, mind, that's activated, more energized

in a way that is not usually so relaxing or calm or it can be we're living in our thoughts and living in the activated

energy that keeps discursive thinking going rather than settling deeply in and discursive thoughts

can be mesmerizing they can be captivive thoughts can be mesmerizing, they can be captivating, they can be, have a kind of authority

like this is really important to be thinking about, and our sense of self, of who we are

is often closely, maybe unconsciously, but closely connected or associated with

the mind that's just having discursive thoughts, partly because a lot of the discursive thoughts

have to do about me, myself, and I. And so what we're learning to do in meditation, especially samadhi, is to become attuned, aligned with something different than that.

A place that's maybe deep inside, maybe in the torso, in the chest or in the belly,

where there's a feeling of settling, a feeling of being more grounded and connected to ourselves.

And one way to kind of move into this more grounded, connected sense,

embodied sense, rather than a kind of disembodied version of the preoccupations we have,

is to start feeling whatever degree of well-being there is in the body.

And of course, there's a lot of feeling of distress, feeling of discomfort, emotional challenges.

There's a lot of ways that we feel the opposite of well-being, that we then prioritize. So, but not to ignore it,

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