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

Please visit our website at adioderma.org. Hello on this Monday, beginning of our week together and welcome all of you.

And for me, it's very nice to be back

after having been at our retreat center in Santa Cruz,

teaching a week-long retreat.

So the last week I was teaching in this Samadhi series,

I talked about,

Samadhi is, involved simplicity and a settleness, a steadiness, a steadiness, a spaciousness, and a sweetness.

And this is definitely true, but all those qualities can lend itself to a suggestion, idea,

that samadhi should be like kind of making oneself really cozy like reading

a really nice book or something and well there's something something true about that the rolling

kind of curling up to read a good book on the couch,

it becomes mostly kind of a mental effort.

The body's gotten cozy, but the body is not engaged, included in the effort.

So with samadhi, the body is definitely included.

It's part of the picture.

Samadhi is inclusion.

Samadhi is unification.

Samadhi is integration. Samadhi is integration,

samadhi is gathering together all of who we are,

including all of us, and part of it is our body, our posture.

And we can see in sports and crafts and different situations in life,

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