Yes, yourself.BrokenBones wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 6:44 am I suggest some folk overestimate their knowledge of Dhamma and make scurrilous aspersions... isn't making suggestions fun!
You appear merely repeating what I taught you.
Your belief is not necessary true or real. Instead, it appears to accord with your mind's defilements that prevent your mind attaining real jhana. There is no awareness of the physical body in real jhana. Therefore, one that has never attained real jhana can never refute one that has. Your attempts are futile and chuckle-able.BrokenBones wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 6:44 ambut when the Buddha is using the word Kaya in relation to the physical body I tend to believe that he's using the word Kaya in the sense of a physical body or at least give us a clue he's about to change its usage mid-flow.
The above is unsubstantiated personal opinion.BrokenBones wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 6:44 am The similes are all bodily related in order that later people don't misunderstand that he's talking about the physical body and not something idiotic like 'the body of mind' which has no relation to the similes or teaching in question.
I already refuted your remark.BrokenBones wrote: ↑Tue Apr 27, 2021 6:44 amIf you'd be a bit more observant, you would have noticed I gave a timeline of the video to make it easier to check on my 'unsubstantiated remarks'.
Ajahn Brahm was correct when he said at 52 minutes "the mind liberates itself at step 12". However, once & after this occurs, the meditator has the volitional capacity to liberate the mind in the same way, even though the original liberating of mind occurred by itself, without any volition. This is why it is "training". The Dhamma itself has trained the meditator to do something they previously could not do.
As for what he is saying about jhana, it is nonsense. Anapanasati is not about jhana.