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

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And so warm greetings.

And so I want to say that it's raining here and there's a teaching that the Dharma is like the rain in the forest, and that when it rains in the forest, each, all the different plants, small plants, big trees, each of them observes the amount of water they need for their life.

And so when hearing the Dharma, reading the Dharma, being in the Dharma, each of us will take in what we need at any given time and to trust that.

So the topic is, this week, around Samadhi, is organized under the category of pleasure.

And it involves a range of certainly sensations

like pleasant sensations,

but also involves emotions of things like gladness

and joy and happiness

and even more intense forms of well-being.

And in the teachings of the Buddha,

the condition for concentration is some form of happiness,

to really get absorbed in samadhi, for a samadhi to

really to arise as we meditate, is to have some modicum, some form of happiness.

The condition for happiness is to have some form of tranquility or being relaxed at ease. And the condition for happiness is to have some form of tranquility or being relaxed at ease.

And the condition for relaxation is some joy.

And the condition for joy is to have gladness, a delight.

And so these are called the gladness pentad.

Gladness can lead to joy, joy to tranquility,

tranquility to happiness, and happiness to samadhi.

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