12. Nimittas & Jhanas

[@WalterTonetto]

One of the few courageous teachers out there who teach the jhānas ... it should be taught in every school ... then the illusions of this world would dissolve in oceans of Bliss ... :)

[@mja4752]

actually concentration jhana is not enough to even do the slighest progress

[@kayakMike1000]

Oceans of Bliss? I don't trust that.

[@yroy4457]

​@@mja4752 listen his lecture

[@vijjanandadhamma]

A gift to all vipasanna meditators from a sotopanna. Our mission while sitting in meditation. Vipasanna meditation. When we become fluent in vipasanna meditation, we begin to realise the state of mind we are in. It is very important to know that state of conciousness so as to progress further. One must differnciate it clearly or how then one is going to progress without knowing. The path of vipasanna meditation is to calm the mind to the state buddhist call it samadhi which are vitaka (initial entry to first stage of calmness) that lead to vichara(sustaining of the first state of calmness) This initial state of calm is known as 1st samadhi. Upon one ability to hang on to this first samadhi, the mental progress will continue to develop further reaching the state of piti which is the second state of calmness. Usual meditator experience it say he feel like, floating, lightness, tear flowing and mind is calm without much problem to watch the breath. Then as one can maintain this state of mind with ongoing inbreath and out breath, one will reach the 3rd samadhi calmness of mind that spell bodily pleasure more stronger then before when in 2nd samadhi. Some meditator begin to feel very happy, some see bright light, some see mind sparking, some see shadow passing. These are strong concentration that bring about nimita from the mind that appear to be real but the meditator must not attached to it but continue to be mindful, free from attachment and to be calm. After this moment occur and if the meditator mind is strong are not disturb, distract, non attached, no delusion, non greed on this occurance, the meditator will be continue to progress to realize and aware that the breath become softer, subtle, disappear and nobody sensation feeling aslo disappear and here it is UPEKA. Very important state of mind to reach as one is like being in the moment of emptiness, nothingness, space Thinking still exist during this experience. Here very important not to get lost, gets excite, gets deluded and too many on going thinking will take you out of this upeka. So during this monent stay calm as you can see there is thinking on going but do not let thinking become master or you will be kick out of upeka. Stay calm stop thinking and be with the condition. During this moment while you are staying calm in upeka your mind or i shall say you 5 mental faculties are in behind making adjustment and trying to be balance to be upeka and if successful if it is auto able to gets balance(meaning greed, hatred, delusions are removed as that 5 faculties are capable to become balance or become neutral, when that happen, your mind will shuts down and you enter the streams of ariya. Sadhu sadhu sadhu This article is written out of compassion for one who seek the path so difficult indeed and this article is carefully written from the path that was reached as a gift to all vipasanna practioner from a sotopana. BUDDHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

[@mathieuavisse4623]

If there is no piti then there is no first jhana > piti does not magically appear in the second .... sorry but it s written black on white in half the suttas

[@girisamudra3633]

A very detailed description of what I experienced in the last Vipassana sitting. Thank you 🙏🏽 Will be doing a 20 day retreat shortly. I’ve realised the depth of samadhi during anapana is one key and equanimity is the other key. Any other pointers would be appreciated 😊

[@poetryjones7946]

The sound is waaaaay too low to hear anything though. Maybe this needs to be reloaded? 😢🙏🏼

[@lioninvesting4676]

Love you Ajahn Brahm ❤️❤️

[@Mystical3030]

Ive been doing meditation since past 2 years....A month back during meditation I saw a small bright dot on a black background which pulsed n slowly grew up into a bright orb like moon.... in the moon I saw black n white buildings n like a movie it started playing... I got scared n open my eyes.... Today after a month I was meditating again....After some time, I saw a bright translucent screen n then the dot n orb again..... in the orb I saw lots of sanskrit shlokas which started appearing slowly n then fast which got soooo fast n it turned into a path which was running so fast n then it became a root of a tree n then the trunk n then the whole tree above me... Then I started seeing mushroom like nuclear blast n volcanos.... I tried to calm my breath n kept focusing on my breathing...eventually it made me dizzy so I opened my eyes...

[@vijjanandadhamma]

Nimita arise in meditation. It arise to distract. Vipasanna is the way to nibanna and not to attached to anythings. The 4 noble truth explain very clearly about nibanna. The 4 noble truth where the last truth tell us this End of sufferrings. In vipasanna meditation, the meditators minds shuts down and when this occur, one samasara existence Ends. Meaning you are no more at that ceesation of conciousness no more existing in this samsara dreams of existence.Nibanna has nothing to do with mind and body or mind and matter. Nibanna is unborn, uncondition. Suki hotu. BUDDHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

[@Mystical3030]

@@vijjanandadhamma Thank you for the wonderful insight...

[@steelgila]

The description of nimittas sounds like Sangharakshita's description of something he called samapatti. Must be a connection between the two or they are different word concepts for the same thing. Much thanks to you sir for the explanation of these nimittas and especially of the jhanas that I found mentioned in books connected with buddhism that never explained what they really were or what one did to encounter them. Although Sangarakshita did a good job of explaining 'dhyanas and how each one leads to the next as you have pointed out.

[@FreedomandRights4US]

Really cool to see a talk on nimitta from one of the most silly monks today. Great stuff

[@plutonicfireball1559]

Silly? Tricked you!

[@vijjanandadhamma]

Samatha or vipasanna? Samatha and vipasanna both will require samadhi. Vipasanna continue after samadhi to contemplate on the breath and see anicha, dukkha, anatha and to experience moment to moment changes and to return to the main object so as to develop wisdom to see the true nature of everythings and finally come to the end of sufferrings. In samatha they too require samadhi and nonself but until such time the mind enter into the chosen object and absorb into it. The object become the destination for samatha practioner. In short we say samatha is the process of stopping investigation and gets adsorbed into chosen object and thus stop progressing to reach the end of sufferring. So in summary vipasanna has all the tools require to reach nibanna where as samatha does not has the tools to reach nibanna. So the importance here is not about who is better but the truth is as instructed by the Buddha is to reach nibanna in this life. So vipasanna will be the most appropriate meditation instructions one has to really persue in this life. That served the whole purpose of the BUDDHA teaching. To make sure you guys can be liberated from the cycle of endless death. Suki hotu. BUDDHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

[@mathieuavisse4623]

very true , too bad most people get fascinated by lights lol

[@Eezzy108]

Jhanas are easywhat’s difficult is the mind and the world, and dealing with people

[@raymahesta3935]

So funny i laugh a lot, 🤣👍🙏

[@ALLISMIND]

Please inform your followers that Buddha did not mention nimittas. They are not part of the jhanas. To all people watching this please go to the source.

[@rickyleonardo2865]

Amazing ! Wonderful !

[@dilukafernando8597]

💚🙏💚

[@jameswilson4228]

Amazing talk!

[@MrChristopherxx]

Ajahn Brahms style of Jhana teaching and Gyobutsuji Zen Monastery style of Zazen are my favorite :)

[@anniechua8985]

Wonderful talk!

[@dattagrace]

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you!

[@YouTubeViewer2023]

Amazing talk thank you Ajahn Brahm

[@Sunnanandi]

The audio on this video is set TOO LOW.

[@HuiChyr]

Yeah, It's too soft.

[@poetryjones7946]

It’s a shame because, what I can hear of it, sounds like probably a really great talk.😢😢

[@mkartmkart6335]

Right hand breathing in Left hand breathing out Right hand touching left hand the touching happens between the toucher and the touched breathing happen between in and out its all touch its all breath its all moving air.... Then i got excited hehe....

[@vijjanandadhamma]

Nimita arise in meditation. It arise to distract. Vipasanna is the way to nibanna and not to attached to anythings. The 4 noble truth explain very clearly about nibanna. The 4 noble truth where the last truth tell us this End of sufferrings. In vipasanna meditation, the meditators minds shuts down and when this occur, one samasara existence Ends. Meaning you are no more at that ceesation of conciousness no more existing in this samsara dreams of existence.Nibanna has nothing to do with mind and body or mind and matter. Nibanna is unborn, uncondition. Suki hotu. BUDDHAM SARANAM GACCHAMI

[@alanhussey]

Sound was a little poor....

[@sqeye]

no, it's fine. must be your end.

[@LoveJungle420]

Yeah it's too quiet.

[@poetryjones7946]

Yeah, a LOT poor. Can barely hear this.

[@mja4752]

how come i can t find anything regarding nimittas in the suttas ?

[@ALLISMIND]

because he doesnt follow Buddha, but the commentaries. Nowhere in suttas Buddha said "focus on one thing".

[@yroy4457]

Read Upakileasa sutta ...​@@ALLISMIND

[@thahanchaiyen]

Sadhu, Sadhu, Sadhu.

[@Bodhipallanka]

In india, no body talks of Jhanas...

[@SBCBears]

Probably because there are few Theravadans in India. Therevadans rely primarily on the Pali Canon. Jhanas are salient in the Buddha's original teaching, the Pali Canon.

[@arpan81990]

Jhanas are talked of in form of various levels of samadhi in Patanjali yoga sutras. Eg 1st jhana= sasmit samadhi

[@celestes.7187]

It’s Dhyana in Sanskrit and people talk about it all the time :)

[@navarachi095]

do we know what these entites are that approach during mediation? Are the spirits? Amazing talk btw Ajahn Brahm.

[@mja4752]

Note and let go

[@mathieuavisse4623]

it s defilement of the mind , unbalance of the faculties

[@User-kjxklyntrw]

Other dimension entities (but not spirit)

[@PatRick1981-s1w]

Do the no braining

[@martinallanratcliffe6399]

Jhana is dhyana. Of course it is talked about in India. Its one of the limbs of Patanjalis yoga sutras.

[@arpan81990]

martin allan ratcliffe: Dhyana referred to in patanjali yoga sutras is indeed the pure sanskrit term from which pali term jhana is derived, but the states these 2 words referred to have become different, especially in contemporary buddhism vis a vis yoga/hinduism. Dhyan refers to just an unbroken flow of awareness towards the object, not an absorption into it which jhana refers to. Yogic equivalent of jhana is samadhi. Ironically modern buddhist samadhi refers to what hindu/yogic dhyana refers to. So in hinduism/yoga, samadhi is a specialised state, not dhyana. In Buddhism, jhana(=yogic samadhi) is a specialised state, not samadhi(= yogic dhyana). Eg first jhana is definitely similar to how sasmit samadhi(literally: samadhi with a smile) is described. Note: am talking aboyt contemporary buddhism, not sure how these words were used by buddhists in buddha's era.

[@mathieuavisse4623]

it's samatha jhanas not the jhanas recommended by buddha ... too much concentration create nimittas if one enters a nimitta then only citta remains no contact > not as the suttas says but the commentaries . buddha said otherwise , practiced otherwise , recommended to pratice otherwise .

[@keithstump970]

Sound is extremely poor quality on all my devices. Unlistenable. Hire a new sound man!

[@WalterTonetto]

Keith Stump you’re completely stumped, aren’t you! *Better you don’t follow spiritual discourses* ... there is plenty of junk food on KZbin that will satisfy your audiophile longings!