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- Wed Jan 09, 2013 8:12 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: 1st jhana factors: theory vs experience
- Replies: 35
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Re: 1st jhana factors: theory vs experience
The sad and confusing thing about all this is that the majority of the most knowledgeable meditation teachers do not address these contradictions. I don't know if they are aware of the problem and they don't dare to say anything or if in spite of their high level of realization and nobility they are...
- Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:25 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: 1st jhana factors: theory vs experience
- Replies: 35
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Re: 1st jhana factors: theory vs experience
It does make a difference, in the light of AN 9.35, if one misunderstands what are the first and the second jhana: "Suppose there was a mountain cow — foolish, inexperienced, unfamiliar with her pasture, unskilled in roaming on rugged mountains — and she were to think, 'What if I were to go in ...
- Wed Jan 09, 2013 3:41 am
- Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
- Topic: 1st jhana factors: theory vs experience
- Replies: 35
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1st jhana factors: theory vs experience
First of all, I want to make clear that I am not creating this thread to boast about my experience. What would be the point anyway, no one here knows who I am, and there is no better way to fall off from those mental states than boasting about them, which is why everyone who attains them keeps quiet...