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Some people are afraid of becoming attached to the pleasure of jhāna meditation, but jhānic pleasure is a more spiritual replacement for sensual/sexual pleasure. Attachment to jhānic pleasure frees you from attachment to physical form/bodies.
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That's the picture that came to my mind
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Sometimes sitting to meditate just serves to quiet the mind. Nothing else - no Jhana, no deepening the concentration, no observing impermanence, no-self and unsatisfatoriness.
Just sitting.
And that is ok.
So if you have fairly stable concentration and you place the feather of concentration on a pleasant feeling, it starts to grow and hang out for longer. 1st Jhana unlocked! The trick really is relaxing, not striving, not trying to achieve anything but just enjoying whatever is going on!
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Lesson learned: don't focus on the meditation object with force like it's a struggle; settle attention on it like placing a feather on a cushion.
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Religious Ecstasy
This is a reported form of altered state of consciousness that’s characterized by greatly reduced external awareness & purportly expanded interior mental & spiritual awareness. It’s frequently accompanied by visions & emotional (& sometimes physical) euphoria.
Even though this experience is usually a brief period of time, there are records of such experiences lasting several days or even more. There are also recurring experiences of ecstasy during a person’s lifetime.
In Sufism, this is called: wajd. In Buddhism, it’s called: piti. It’s usually translated as “joy” or “rapture,” & is an element of jhana, a state of oneness with an object that 1 focuses on in meditation.
With the adjective “religious” means that the experience occurs in connection with religious activities or is interpreted in the context of a religion.
In yoga, it provides certain techniques to attain a state of ecstasy called: samadhi. Practitioners say that there are various stages of ecstasy. The highest one being Nirvikalpa samadhi. Bhakti Yoga, in particular, places emphasis on ecstasy as being 1 of the fruits of its practice.
In Buddhism, especially in the Pali Canon, there are 8 trance states, called absorption. The first 4 states are: Rupa (materially oriented). The next 4 states are: Arupa (non-material). These 8 states are preliminary trances which lead up to the final saturation. In the Visuddhimagga, lots of effort & years of sustained meditation are practiced to reach the first absorption. Not everyone can do this at all.
In monotheistic traditions, ecstasy is normally associated with communion & oneness with God. Some charismatic Christians practice ecstatic states (like “being slain in the Spirit”). They view these as being given by the Holy Spirit, or gifts of the Spirit.
However, such experiences can also be a quite personal mystical experience with no significance to anyone but the person experiencing them.
Religious ecstasy in certain Christian movements has also been seen as: squealing, shrieking, an inability to stand/sit, uttering apocalyptic prophecies, holy laughter, crying, & barking. Some have made some interesting claims of seeing “gold dust,” “angel feathers,” “holy clouds,” or precious gem stones spontaneously showing up during ecstatic worship events.
In hagiographies (writings about Christian saints), there are plenty of records in which saints are granted ecstasies. Some Modern witchcraft traditions call themselves “ecstatic traditions.” They focus on reaching ecstatic states in their rituals. The Reclaiming Tradition & the Feri Tradition are 2 modern ecstatic Witchcraft examples.
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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:
AN 3.63 Venāgapurasutta: Venāga
“If I am sitting, on that occasion my sitting is divine.…”
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🌱 Today’s #DailySutta:
AN 9.36 Jhānasutta: Depending on Absorption
“They turn their mind away from those things, and apply it to freedom from death……”
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"On a global scale, we have many examples of selfish and self-assertive behaviour; leaders of some countries who clearly suffer from severe personality disorders and various forms of psychopathology including narcissism and paranoia, leading to neglect and damage even to their own peoples; and, in the context of this chapter, the refusal across countries to share responsibility and act together." #PaulDennison
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/covid-19-pandemic-climate-change-fractal-crisis-paul-paul-dennison
An interesting treatment on Jhāna Consciousness on hoopla digital.
https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/15364646
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"I’ll cut to the chase: In my first hour of practice, I found myself in first #jhana — the most euphoric of the jhanas. The experience felt like an #MDMA roll hitting at the exact moment of a bass drop."
"I messaged Beacham, who had once tweeted about how her jhanic practice had made a trip to Macy’s feel “as intense as sex.” “Now I completely understand your Macy’s tweet,” I felt ridiculous typing those words."
The latest gem that I found on Hoopla, Jhāna Consciousness
https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/15364646
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New research reveals an advanced form of mediation impacts the brain and is linked to aspects of well-being https://www.massgeneral.org/news/press-release/mri-shows-advanced-meditation-impacts-the-brain #jhana
Intensive whole-brain 7T MRI case study of volitional control of brain activity in deep absorptive meditation states https://academic.oup.com/cercor/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/cercor/bhad408/7369445 #neuroscience #consciousness
come to the office, finish commute-coffee, read about #jhana/concentration-meditation, notice a few more precious wrong notions clinging to my skin. realize, yet again again again again, how fucking little i know. off to the 'wellness room' to sit in the dark and cry-i-think and see if i can imagine a more musical universe and go live there; another weekday morning
I've updated my lengthy blogpost surveying conflicting views about jhana as best I can. Exploring this and writing about it has been a way for me to put down some of my doubt and indecision around this area of practice. I'm not saying it's case closed, but I feel happy with my relationship to these questions, and with how I'm walking the path. May it help someone else, or spark inquiry, but please hold what I've written lightly. https://www.almostcomposed.com/2022/10/mapping-the-jhana-controversy/