Jhana

[@Tridib_Tinkel]

Well-established disciple of Ajahn Brahm. Thanks Brahm for producing such a gem namely "Sujato Bhikkhu", love from Bangladesh

[@SBCBears]

This is a good teacher.

[@krishuang6309]

Good metaphors and very precise descriptions of each stages of jhanas. Thank you, Bhante Sujato! I've benefited from several of your videos.

[@deborahaulick8479]

"Separation disolves" exactly so. I was at a popular art fair, enjoying the whole atmosphere, really at peace...I had come to a place in my Montessori teacher's training where I felt confident that I was going to be prepared for my work ahead. I was taking a much needed break from my studies by attending the art fair on such a beautiful day. All of a sudden I stopped in the middle of a row as I witnessed a visually connected continuity of movement of all the people around me, I was frozen still, awestruck, maybe even with my mouth open, not sure. Everything was moving together, like a magically choreographed dance. I think it lasted about 10 seconds, but I'll never forget it. By the way, thank you so much for these talks, they do us all a world of good!

[@sarathw5740]

Great Dhamma talk. Be patient for the first 15 minutes after this time the presentation started to flow smoothly.

[@masongoliver]

Do not step forward, do not step back, most importantly, do not stand still... (mind blown!!)

[@debikatz659]

Such a lovely and insightful lesson, Thank you

[@mja4752]

very good video - what do you do with side effects of meditation like - almost uninterreupted feeling of energy moving through the body - feeling dizzy - seeing swirling tunnels of lights - inhability to sleep because of extreme energy - pity ? i experience this alomst all the time now - i try to nte and let go but it's not as easy - anyways i ll go back to my rising sun state :) thank you sir

[@JhanicSatori]

i would love to meet him in real life

[@reallife7375]

What is the biggest thing??

[@macieg9537]

Sadhu! Sadhu! Sadhu!

[@vijaywankhede6600]

Sadhu sadhu sadhu...

[@reallife7375]

What about fear and guilt at the same time

[@reallife7375]

Jesus said... I am the way!!.... Buddha said seek and find etc.......

[@reallife7375]

U can only talk about this once been there

[@reallife7375]

Seek the jhannas.............. ........

[@mindgardening7168]

Again lots of talk describing what Jhana is but nothing really about how to enter it

[@reallife7375]

Jhanna is nice but it's nothing on the planet!!!

[@man2voidvoid2man93]

wow these buddists are sooo long winded , just sit or whatever + quieten the mind + if you can do this you will enter jhana + eventually the voidstates

[@cariyaputta]

It not how Jhana works, careful not to delude yourself. Prefer back to the Buddha's teaching on the first Jhana: "Here, quite secluded from sensual desires, secluded from unwholesome states of mind, a monk enters upon and abides in the first meditative absorption (jhana), which is accompanied by thought conception and discursive thinking and has in it joy and pleasure born of seclusion. This is the other kind of pleasure which surpasses that (sense) pleasure and is more sublime." www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn36/sn36.019.nypo.html

[@man2voidvoid2man93]

@Walterpeck Hi , thank you for your reply . Yes we may have been many different personalities in past lives , time is irrelevant to the inner self , even future lives are available as the Buddists know . So perhaps information is also 'filtering ' back to the present self from lives in the future . It is of course up to the present personality as to wether he, she utilises such information or can even accept it . I believe that all knowledge is always available , we are all the same in that sense , the Buddha (or Christ if you like) is within all creation , without exception i believe . The compassioate Buddha is a beautiful human concept of the 'ground reality' of existence + jhana I credit with deeper states of conciousness or awareness , especially the formless 'realms'. Massive contributions , amongst others , that the buddists have produced . I'm not sure about skipping the jhanas as you put it as I believe that infinite space , infinate concousness is one of the fundamental experiences that all personalities will encounter on their deeper or more concentrated expansions (or contractions) + in a sense cannot be avoided . A sort of signpost if you will but then it might not be called jhana to someone else. And then there is the question as to what does or does not exist beyond cessation or non being . I believe there is still existence + is perhaps what the Buddists call Nirvana , I might call it God , but who can really say what is or is not existent that is beyond perception . Or is it just human perception ? And , as of course when one is in cessation or suspension or nonbeing , one is not just formless but as perception ceases , absolutely spaceless + timeless . Even the man who has given this lecture , has in one of his posts said that there is a 9th jhana . I have asked him to elucidate but he has not done so + this is my bone of contention with most Buddists that I have come across (maybe I have been unlucky) , but they are very reluctant , putting it mildly in some cases , to explain what they mean by such comments . Perhaps they are even confused amongst themselves about such intangible realities but that they will not discourse about them , this is rather sad in my opinion . But as you said , some of their teachings do most definately warrent great good merit + essential reading in some respects to the would be wanderer , but then I knew nothing of them in this life when I was 'taken' to cessation , so what does it really matter , in another sense . But a rum old conversation about it all , now that would be nice ha ha .

[@man2voidvoid2man93]

@@cariyaputta Jhana does not work in any particular way my friend , jhana are simply states of awareness + can be reached by different methods . I have been as far as neither perception nor non perception + what some of you Buddists call cessation . My question about the buddist method , is not about wether these states are legitimate or not but why Buddists do not like to hold some sort of a conversation about the differing aspects of formlessness or jhana + even what may or may not be existent beyond non perception + cessation + that which is absolutely spaceless + timeless . Do you call this Nirvana , maybe I call this God .

[@man2voidvoid2man93]

​@Walterpeck Wow speedy reply . Yes the earlier jhanas can indeed be skipped but are important signposts in themselves as to the depth of any meditation + in fact that a good or proficient level of inner concentration is reached . I did not enter into the formless jhana by way of the earlier jhana which is the use of a contracted form of awareness , but by way of an expansion of awareness . Both methods will or can bring one into infinite space + infinite consciousness + the first step into formlessness as I understand it . Do I still sustain or return to cessation , yes very good question + not easy to answer . I can say that I understand that some buddists because of their dedication to their meditation say that they can + are able to enter into any of the jhana states at will , tho I am not sure if that includes cessation . This is not so for me . But , the experience itself is etched into my being + cannot be erased . It is like an invisible backdrop to everything in my life + experience of myself or reality + sometimes in quieter moments when I dissociate from all material concerns then it is there more apparent + I know that when I leave this life it will be there that I go as I know that it is there that I was created + from where I came into being in this form + all others .