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

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So hello everyone and welcome to this ongoing series on samadhi.

We had a two-week break as I was mostly at our retreat center in Santa Cruz during this time.

And now I'm happy to be back.

And it's a bit of a gap, so I'd like to just a little bit

kind of start over.

With meditation in general, but also with, especially with samadhi,

there's something invaluable about always feeling like you're starting over

so that you're not measuring or looking for something

or trying to tap into something too quickly

so that you sit down to just be reaffing tap into something too quickly,

so that you sit down to just be with yourself as you are, to discover how you are.

Because it's very easy in a life, busy life, full life,

scared life, full life, scared life, angry life, to view ourselves, our world partially,

to only be connected to part of who we are, and to enter into samadhi really want to be connected to all of who we are because samadhi is a process

of unification. It's a process of gathering ourselves together so that all parts of who we are can be

working together in harmony.

And so in the beginning of this series, I talked about samadhi being a temple, and that we're

entering the temple. And we want to bring all of ourselves along, and we want to bring all of ourselves along and we want to do it carefully with respect

with kindness

with a certain kind of humility

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