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

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So, hello and welcome to our meditation, and we're during a period of time now,

for the last couple of months where we're focusing on samadhi.

And samadhi has this dual characteristic that can seem a little bit like a paradox.

Oh, and...

And that is that there's both simultaneously a feeling of wholeness that arises

where everything's included

or a feeling of the mind being quite expansive

or the mental state

the awareness being expansive, open, wide, inclusive of everything.

On one hand, and the other hand, there's a centering on something.

And that centering can become so central

that in terms of what we're aware of,

that's all there's left.

That the world gets relatively small

in terms of what we're consciously focusing on

or centered on.

And those two things go together.

So the expansive mind, the whole mind that includes everything,

is not actually aware of everything.

And the sense of being centered on something,

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