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

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So good morning and hello and welcome to this meditation session.

That's part of an ongoing series on samadhi.

And samadhi is the means in Buddhism

to see things clearly as they are.

And to do so with equanimity,

to do so with a non-reactivity,

because reactivity prevents us

from seeing things as they are,

and the primary thing that we want to see is ourselves, or see in such a way that we see what's there, we see the world clearly, but we don't get caught in it, we become free.

And so for some of us, it's an indirect way of finding our equanimity with the world.

It's also an indirect way of responding to the world.

Samadhi is not a retreating from the world.

It's a strategic stepping away in order to come back into health,

psychological, spiritual help.

And what's remarkable about the whole process of Buddhist meditation

and Buddhist kind of spiritual life, is that we have self-healing properties.

We have, there's a movement towards homeostasis or a movement towards health to wholeness.

There's a movement towards no longer living in a divided way

or no longer caught in our reactivity,

in our fears, and our ambitions and conceits.

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