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by 1stjhanafactors
Wed Jan 09, 2013 8:12 am
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: 1st jhana factors: theory vs experience
Replies: 35
Views: 7032

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...
by 1stjhanafactors
Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:25 am
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: 1st jhana factors: theory vs experience
Replies: 35
Views: 7032

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 ...
by 1stjhanafactors
Wed Jan 09, 2013 3:41 am
Forum: General Theravāda Meditation
Topic: 1st jhana factors: theory vs experience
Replies: 35
Views: 7032

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...