Introduction to Samadhi meditation Can anyone give me a brief introduction into practicing samadhi meditation? I could start saying i understand the common principles of meditation. I had practiced a peacefull breath based meditation in the past, but i didn't have any instruction whatsoever. Recently in my life i been practicing vipassana meditation, but i ended dropping it. I think samadhi meditation may be what i'm looking for for this moment in my life.
Insight meditation is what you ultimately strive at. You can start with Samadhi and progress to insight.

When getting instructions for Samadhi meditation it is best you get this from a competent teacher who can guide you. Have a look at the World Buddhist Directory to see if you can locate some on in your area: http://www.buddhanet.info/wbd/. If you want to try out using Anapana to develop Samadhi and them progress to Vippassana perhaps you can also try out a course at: https://www.dhamma.org/en/index. (There are over 200 centres world wide.)

In case you are in the receptive area some relevant centres maybe (check if the do the type of Samatha mediation you want to practice):


http://bhavanasociety.org/
http://www.dhammasukha.org/
http://www.dhammatalks.org/
http://www.imsb.org/ (Though the name suggests insight the teacher is from Pa Auk tradition hence competent to teach Samatha)
http://cms.bswa.org.au/
http://www.amaravati.org/
http://www.samatha.org/