Or as Dhammapada 200 says about the rapture of jhana ❋ William Harryman (2009)
Better than a hundred years lived without virtue, uncentered, is one day lived by a virtuous person absorbed in jhana. ❋ William Harryman (2009)
Of these, concentration — at the level of jhana, or intense absorption — is the strength that the Buddhist tradition most often compares to good, healthy food. ❋ William Harryman (2009)
A discourse in the Anguttara Nikaya VII.63 compares the four levels of jhana to the provisions used to stock a frontier fortress. ❋ William Harryman (2009)
~ Staying power (2) -- You've perhaps heard of dhyana (pali: jhana) or meditative absorption, traditionally divided into subtle form and formless, each in a set of four stages. ❋ William Harryman (2007)
The Pali Canon of the Theravadin Buddhists, in multiple passages that have parallels in other Buddhist traditions, describes progressively deeper stages of meditative concentration (jhana), passing through which one loses first the abilities to initiate and sustain thought, then also joyful interest (pîti), and finally even the feeling of ❋ Katz, Leonard D. (2006)
They are called "Brahma abodes" because the four Brahma realms of the plane of ethereal forms (form realm) correspond, in turn, to the four immeasurable attitudes and to the four levels of mental stability (Pali: jhana, Skt. dhyana). ❋ Unknown (2005)
A natural yogin, he entered into the first jhana, a trance in which the meditator feels a calm happiness but is still able to think and reflect. ❋ Armstrong, Karen, 1944- (2001)
Most yogins could only achieve the first jhana after years of study and hard work, but it had come to him without any effort on his part and given him a foretaste of Nibbana. ❋ Armstrong, Karen, 1944- (2001)
If an untrained child could reach the first jhana and have intimations of Nibbana without even trying, then yogic insight must be profoundly natural to human beings. ❋ Armstrong, Karen, 1944- (2001)
He then slipped easily into the first jhana, and progressed through ever higher states of consciousness until he gained an insight that forever transformed him and convinced him that he had freed himself from the round of samsara and rebirth. ❋ Armstrong, Karen, 1944- (2001)
In the first stage of jhana, he would become entirely oblivious to the immediate environment, and feel a sensation of great joy and delight, which, a yogin could only assume, was the beginning of his final liberation. ❋ Armstrong, Karen, 1944- (2001)
If he was to reproduce the calm content that had modulated so easily into the first jhana under the rose-apple tree, it was important to find a congenial spot for his meditation. ❋ Armstrong, Karen, 1944- (2001)
Once he had entered his trance (jhana), the yogin progressed through a series of increasingly deep mental states, which bear little relation to ordinary experience. ❋ Armstrong, Karen, 1944- (2001)
When he had mastered this, he progressed to the cultivation of compassion with the second jhana, learning to suffer with other people and things and to empathize with their pain, as he had felt the suffering of the grass and the insects under the rose-apple tree. ❋ Armstrong, Karen, 1944- (2001)
Now Gotama entered the first jhana and penetrated the inner world of his psyche; when he finally reached the peace of Nibbana all the worlds of the Buddhist cosmos were convulsed, the heavens and hells shook, and the bodhi tree rained down red florets on the enlightened man. ❋ Armstrong, Karen, 1944- (2001)
Finally, when he attained the fourth jhana, in which the yogin was so immersed in the object of his contemplation that he was beyond pain or pleasure, Gotama aspired to an attitude of total equanimity toward others, feeling neither attraction nor antipathy. ❋ Armstrong, Karen, 1944- (2001)
What had produced that mood of calm happiness that had modulated so easily into the first jhana? ❋ Armstrong, Karen, 1944- (2001)
In the fourth and final jhana, he had become so fused with the symbols of his dhamma that he felt he had become one with them, and was conscious of nothing else. ❋ Armstrong, Karen, 1944- (2001)
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