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Glossary

Samadhi

Collectedness. Freedivers know

Samadhi is the state of collectedness in meditation, deepened through the jhanas.

In freediving you catch it when you dive without resisting the water. That’s where a freediver begins.

The other day I remembered: in freediving I had landed in samadhi, and tried to reproduce it in meditation — there’s nothing to do there, just relax completely and switch off. Turned out it’s not that simple. Easier to dive deeper. You are gone, and the sensations are magic.

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