Meditation is easy to describe and famously hard to explain, which is the exact gap Samadhi: Part 2 - It's Not What You Think tries to close for anyone who found the first installment more question than answer.

What is Samadhi: Part 2 - It's Not What You Think about?

This is the second chapter of a documentary series built around the concept of samadhi, a state of deep meditative absorption that traditional yoga treats as one of its highest aims. Where the first film laid out the problem — how the restless, comparing, story-making mind keeps people from ever settling into stillness — this installment goes further into what actually happens when that settling occurs, and why the experience resists the neat descriptions people usually reach for. Rather than treating meditation as a lifestyle accessory or a productivity hack, the film returns to it as a serious contemplative practice with a long history, using narration and imagery to walk through ideas that are usually taught face-to-face by a teacher rather than explained on screen. The title's own subtitle is a clue to its approach: viewers arriving with assumptions about what a meditation documentary should look like are the audience it is most interested in challenging.

About the cast

Daniel Schmidt directs this installment, continuing a project built less around interviews with named subjects and more around narration, visual metaphor, and a teaching voice guiding the viewer through the material. That structure suits the subject matter: samadhi is described here as an experience beyond ordinary language, and the film's choice to lean on imagery and voice rather than a traditional documentary cast reflects that.

Context & significance

Released in 2018 and produced in Canada, Samadhi: Part 2 sits inside a small but persistent genre of contemplative documentaries aimed at viewers already curious about meditation, yoga philosophy, and the traditions behind them rather than newcomers looking for a general introduction. Its runtime is compact, closer to a long-form teaching session than a feature film, which fits a project more interested in guiding a state of attention than delivering a conventional narrative arc.

Watching Samadhi: Part 2 - It's Not What You Think on Ktime

Samadhi: Part 2 - It's Not What You Think streams on K-Time with a free account login; browsing the page and reading about the film requires no account at all. K-Time's Farsi-first interface is built for Persian-speaking viewers abroad, which makes a contemplative, subtitle-friendly documentary like this one easy to sit with in a familiar setting. This title currently plays in its original language, without Persian dubbing or subtitles.