A further argument
And what is material rapture? There are these five kinds of sensual stimulation. What five? Sights known by the eye that are likable, desirable, agreeable, pleasant, sensual, and arousing. Sounds … Smells … Tastes … Touches known by the body that are likable, desirable, agreeable, pleasant, sensual, and arousing. These are the five kinds of sensual stimulation. The rapture that arises from these five kinds of sensual stimulation is called material rapture.
And what is spiritual rapture? It’s when a mendicant, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskillful qualities, enters and remains in the first absorption, which has the rapture and bliss born of seclusion, while placing the mind and keeping it connected. As the placing of the mind and keeping it connected are stilled, they enter and remain in the second absorption, which has the rapture and bliss born of immersion, with internal clarity and confidence, and unified mind, without placing the mind and keeping it connected. This is called spiritual rapture...
And what is material pleasure? Mendicants, there are these five kinds of sensual stimulation. What five? Sights known by the eye that are likable, desirable, agreeable, pleasant, sensual, and arousing. Sounds … Smells … Tastes … Touches known by the body that are likable, desirable, agreeable, pleasant, sensual, and arousing. These are the five kinds of sensual stimulation. The pleasure and happiness that arise from these five kinds of sensual stimulation is called material pleasure...
And what is spiritual pleasure? It’s when a mendicant, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskillful qualities, enters and remains in the first absorption, which has the rapture and bliss born of seclusion, while placing the mind and keeping it connected. As the placing of the mind and keeping it connected are stilled, they enter and remain in the second absorption, which has the rapture and bliss born of immersion, with internal clarity and confidence, and unified mind, without placing the mind and keeping it connected. And with the fading away of rapture, they enter and remain in the third absorption, where they meditate with equanimity, mindful and aware, personally experiencing the bliss of which the noble ones declare, ‘Equanimous and mindful, one meditates in bliss.’ This is called spiritual pleasure...
And what is material equanimity? There are these five kinds of sensual stimulation. What five? Sights known by the eye that are likable, desirable, agreeable, pleasant, sensual, and arousing. Sounds … Smells … Tastes … Touches known by the body that are likable, desirable, agreeable, pleasant, sensual, and arousing. These are the five kinds of sensual stimulation. The equanimity that arises from these five kinds of sensual stimulation is called material equanimity.
And what is spiritual equanimity? It’s when, giving up pleasure and pain, and ending former happiness and sadness, a mendicant enters and remains in the fourth absorption, without pleasure or pain, with pure equanimity and mindfulness. This is called spiritual equanimity.
From this we can see the following
Material Rapture: Arises dependent upon pleasing sights, sounds, touches etc.
Spiritual Rapture: Arises apart from pleasing sights, sounds, touches etc.
Material Pleasure: Arises dependent upon pleasing sights, sounds, touches etc.
Spiritual Pleasure: Arises apart from pleasing sights, sounds, touches etc.
Material Equanimity: Arises dependent upon pleasing sights, sounds, touches etc.
Spiritual Pleasure: Arises apart from pleasing sights, sounds, touches etc.
Material rapture, pleasure or equanimity therefore arises with pleasing sights, sounds etc as a basis. When contacted by pleasing sights etc there will be worldly rapture, pleasure or equanimity. For spiritual rapture, pleasure and equanimity it follows that they arise when there is no contact with pleasing sights etc. When one is no longer experiencing pleasing sights, sounds etc then one is secluded, leading to a rapture and happiness (and equanimity) born of seclusion. The Jhāna are states fully secluded from pleasing sights, sounds etc and so, based on her own argument, Keren Arbel should accept that one does not experiences the 5 senses whilst in any Jhāna.