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

Please visit our website at adioderma.org. Hello from Redwood City.

It's clearly getting lighter earlier now.

It's starting to get light outside the windows here.

And in Buddhism it said that dawn is the harbinger of wisdom, because with light we can see clearly.

So, yesterday I said samadhi is simplicity.

Today I'd like to offer a different aspect of samadhi, that samadhi is simplicity. Today I'd like to offer a different aspect of samadhi,

that samadhi is settleness,

to become settled.

And a kind of settleness that creates a foundation to hold all things.

That tripod, for example, when it's well placed with the three legs,

then it can hold whatever telescope that is going to be on it that you can't

really do if the legs are not spread apart, but they're all bunched together, so it's basically

one leg, then it's going to wobble and it's not going to stay up by itself and maybe you have

to hold it, but even your hand is not so steady,

to hold it still. So a steadiness, to create a steady foundation that can hold all of who you are

that allows us to see, turn on the light, to include everything. Because as I keep saying,

samadhi is a unification of all things in a certain way.

So a settleness.

And so to use our different elements of meditation

for the purposes of feeling settled, becoming settled.

It's closely related to being relaxed.

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