Keren Arbel's Jhāna

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Re: Keren Arbel's Jhāna

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mjaviem wrote: Fri Aug 19, 2022 6:41 pm
Ceisiwr wrote: Thu Aug 18, 2022 2:18 am ... It falls down a bit since other ascetics also obtained Jhāna despite having wrong view...
I don't know the story but if true, they must have understood kamma-vipaka, spontaneous birth, the other world, and so on.
Well possibly not. Furthermore they certainly didn't have Right Mindfulness, yet they obtained Jhāna.
“Knowing that this body is just like foam,
understanding it has the nature of a mirage,
cutting off Māra’s flower-tipped arrows,
one should go beyond the King of Death’s sight.”
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