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

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So hello everyone.

Welcome to this meditation.

That's part of the series on samadhi.

And as an introduction, I'd like to say that

samadhi is a very personal experience,

in a very personal way of being in the world, being with oneself.

And so no one, including myself, can give you precise instructions,

precise metaphors, precise that are, you know, tailor-made for each individual for you.

But I'm hoping in this series that I'm teaching enough that there'll be things that are

even just one thing that really supports you, it really helps you as an entryway into this,

a mind which is undistracted,

a mind which becomes clear and really enters into

the meditation in a meaningful way for you, in a deep way.

And one of the ways to understand the instructions I'm giving is that they're all meant

to be ways for you to understand yourself better.

So even if some of the instructions I give here doesn't work for you, that doesn't mean that you should dismiss

them or ignore them, but rather there are a means by which you can understand yourself better

to understand what doesn't work, and by that, maybe you have a better sense of what does work

or maybe there's ways of

what doesn't work and teach you something about how your mind

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