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| | Newsletter ...1-7-2003 |
 | | Thus the type of meditation where there is jhana attainment was praised by the Buddha; the type of meditation where jhana is not attained was not praised by the Buddha. | | | Venerable Ananda replies that the kind of meditation where the Four jhanas are attained was praised by the Buddha; the kind of meditation where the Five Hindrances are not eliminated was not praised by the Buddha. | | | Majjhima Nikaya 66: The Buddha describes the bliss of jhana: ŒThis is called the bliss of renunciation, the bliss of seclusion, the bliss of peace, the bliss of enlightenment. |
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http://www.urbandharma.org/udnl/nl010703.html
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| | GWV Jhana Resource Guide |
| | The Demonizing of Ecstatic Meditation (Jhana) by the Institutions of Buddhism | | | Within a Theravadan Buddhist context the meditative absorption states are known as "Jhana." The Buddha defined the eighth fold of the Noble Eightfold Path in terms of jhana (DN 22.21). | | | The Virtual Sangha for Practitioners of Meditative Absorption and Insight is a primarily Buddhist forum to discuss the practice of meditative absorption, known as Jhana in Pali and Dhyana in Sanskrit, and its relationship to revealing transcendent Insight, known as Vipassana or Vipasyana, for the ultimate purpose of Awakening. |
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http://www.greatwesternvehicle.org/jhanasources.htm
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| | The Jhanas in Theravada Buddhist Meditation |
| | The attainment of the fourth jhana commences with the aforesaid procedure. | | | Corresponding to the fourth jhana there are seven realms: the Realm of Great Reward, the Realm of Non-percipient Beings, and the five Pure Abodes.[22] With this jhana the rebirth pattern deviates from the former one. | | | In their capacity for producing concentration the jhanas are called the basis (pada) for insight, and that particular jhana a meditator enters and emerges from before commencing his practice of insight is designated his padakajjhana, the basic or foundational jhana. |
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http://www.purifymind.com/TheJhanas.htm
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| | Right Concentration (jhanas) |
| | He enters and remains in the third jhana, of which the Noble Ones declare, 'Equanimous and mindful, he has a pleasurable abiding.' With the abandoning of pleasure and pain-as with the earlier disappearance of elation and distress-he enters and remains in the fourth jhana: purity of equanimity and mindfulness, neither pleasure nor pain. | | | Finally, the pleasure of jhana provides a place of rest and rehabilitation along the path when the mind's powers of discernment become dulled or it must be coaxed into the proper mood to accept some of the harsher lessons that it needs to learn in order to abandon its cravings. | | | And furthermore, with the abandoning of pleasure and stress-as with the earlier disappearance of elation and distress-he enters and remains in the fourth jhana: purity of equanimity and mindfulness, neither-pleasure-nor-pain. |
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| | Wings to Awakening: Part III-F |
| | The Buddha: Sandha, practice the absorption (jhana) of a thoroughbred horse, not the absorption of an unbroken colt. | | | If breath meditation were congenial only to Buddhas and their sons, there seems little reason for the Buddha to have taught it so frequently and to such a wide variety of people. | | | One, following the commentarial tradition, asserts that jhana is not necessary for any of the four levels of Awakening and that there is a class of individuals -- called "dry insight" meditators -- who are "released through discernment" based on a level of concentration lower than that of jhana. |
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http://here-and-now.org/wings.book/3f.html
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| | Jhana |
| | Jhana (Pali) Meditation in wisdom, equivalent to Sanskrit jnana and dhyana. | | | Jhana, Buddhism, Buddhism Dictionary, Buddhism Archives, Buddhism Dictionary - J, Buddhism Glossary - J, Buddhism Terms - J, India, Buddha, Zen Buddhism, Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Mysticism Archives, Mystic, Mystic Archives, Mysticism Dictionary - J, Mysticism Glossary - J, Mysticism Terms - J | | | Jhana: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary on Jhana Bhaskara |
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| | The Jhanas in Theravadan Buddhist Meditation |
| | The Pali word Jhana is best translated as "meditative absorption state." It is the same as the Sanskrit Dhyana, which derives from Dhayati, meaning to think or meditate. | | | The realms of the heavenly beings, the human realm, and the realms of destitution (apaya) are classed as the sensual realm, the abode of living beings who indulge in sensuality. | | | The Realms of Formlessness, the abodes of living beings who have attained arupa jhana, are also four. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/awakening101/janas.html
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| | Absorption In Vipassana Practice: Jhanas by Steven Smith |
| | Answer: The question on absorption, or "jhana" in the Buddhist Pali language, is a very important and interesting topic of meditation practice and its ultimate goal of liberation. | | | The fourth Vipassana jhana is the Happiness of Wisdom and Equanimity. | | | The third Vipassana jhana is called in the early texts the "sweetest happiness". |
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http://www.vipassanahawaii.org/articles/vipassana_jhanas.htm
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| | Confessions of a Jhana Jockey |
| | A meditator slipping into jhana for the first time might be forgiven for thinking she or he has had the ultimate spiritual experience. | | | Jhana has five essential characteristics, or “factors,” that distinguish it during meditation practice: applied attention; sustained attention; bliss; happiness; and one-pointed concentration. | | | Experiences of Nirvana are jolts of universal energy and insight in a class beyond anything describable, and that is not the case with jhana. |
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http://www.serve.com/cyberkaya/rik/jhana2.htm
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| | Stages of Buddhist Meditation |
| | NOTE: In Buddhism, it is usually 'jhana' or 'dhyana', but sometimes also 'samadhi', that is used for absorption. | | | NOTE: In Buddhism, the meditative stages of samatha (or shamatha: tranquillity), Samadhi (specifically, access concentration: upacara samadhi), and jhana [Pali] or dhyana [Sanskrit] (absorption) correspond roughly to Patanjali's dharana, dhyana, Samadhi, respectively. | | | Nirodha is attained after passing through the four formless absorptions, but only an Arahant can achieve Nirodha. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/electronic/awakening101/absorption.html
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| | Concentration and Insight |
| | In Pali these are called jhana and vipassana, and these terms are used a lot in Buddhist practice. | | | The Buddha talks of levels of jhana in this sense, states of concentration where one is absorbed inwards. | | | It is the activity that the Buddha tells his disciples to do; he does not say go do vipassana, but go do jhana, in the sense of find a quiet spot, sit down, be still and focus inside - much like we use the word 'meditation'. |
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| | VISUDDHIMAGGA, Chapter 10 (ARUPPA-NIDDESA); BUDDHAGHOSA |
| | The word meaning here is this: that jhana with its associated states neither has perception nor has no perception because of the absence of gross perception and presence of subtle perception, thus it is `neither-perception-nor-non- perception (n'eva-sa¤¤ƒ-nasa¤¤ƒm)'. | | | Of perceptions of matter: both (a) of the fine-material jhanas mentioned [here] under the headihg of `perception' and (b) of those things that are their object. | | | matter-perceptions)', in the sense of `perceptions about matter', are used (a) for fine-material jhana stated thus under the heading of `perceptions'. |
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| | Swift Pair of Messengers - Ajahn Sujato |
| | The opposition between jhana and the five hindrances is not a one-off or occasional teaching, but is a central doctrine, frequently reiterated. | | | We may understand that the unique occurrence of the phrase ‘having made relinquishment the support’ before the jhana formula in the definition of the spiritual faculty of samadhi is linked to the restriction of the spiritual faculties to the noble individuals. | | | The suttas regularly contrast the plurality of sense experience with the unity of jhana, and so the Buddha said that: ‘Noise is a thorn to the first jhana’. |
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http://zencomp.com/greatwisdom/ebud/swiftpair/03.htm
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| | Three Fundamental Concepts |
| | The fourth Jhana is associated with Upekkha Vedana. | | | And while he has the third Jhana, the Jhanangas (parts of the Jhana) are Sukha Ekaggata. | | | The yogi cannot get Appana Samádhi (Jhana) by means of these ten bhávanás. |
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http://www.buddhistinformation.com/three_fundamental_concepts.htm
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| | The characteristic manifestations of absorption |
| | I have too often found a rejection of the psychic powers within various Buddhist traditions to the point that charismatics are often shunned, rejected or dismissed because they have given rise to these various psychic powers spontaneously. | | | In the Discourses of the Buddha the Buddha occasionally mentioned a Pali term "jhana-nimitta" or "samatha-nimittan" (see references below) in reference to the absorption states, which he called jhana. | | | And, when I sit down to meditate I drop into deeper absorption immediately. |
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http://www.greatwesternvehicle.org/jhananimitta.htm
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| | Zolag-Pali Glossary |
| | sphere of neither perception nor non-perception, the meditation subject of the fourth immaterial jhana. | | | change of lineage, the last citta of the sense-sphere before jhana, absorption, is attained, or enlightenment is attained | | | Book of Analysis, one of the seven books of the Abhidhamma |
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| | The Thirty-One Planes of Existence |
| | Consists of four realms that are accessible to those who pass away while meditating in the formless jhanas. | | | These realms are accessible to those who have attained at least some level of jhana and who have thereby managed to (temporarily) suppress hatred and ill-will. | | | Consists of sixteen realms whose inhabitants (the devas) experience extremely refined degrees of mental pleasure. |
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http://www.cambodianbuddhist.org/english/website/ptf/loka.html
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| | Thirty One Planes of Existence |
| | Brahma Sahampati beg Buddha to teach Dhamma to the world. | | | Beings in these realms enjoy varying degree of bliss | | | 8 MK 2 nd jhana of highest degree |
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| | Jhana - definition of Jhana in Encyclopedia |
| | Equivalent terms are jhana in P&, chán in Chinese, and zen in Japanese. | | | Leigh Brasington's extensive material on the web (http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/6774/jhanas.htm) on jhana and related practices | | | Embed a dictionary search in your own web page |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Jhana
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| | Entering Jhana |
| | The Pali word jhana (Sanskrit dhyana) is sometimes simply translated as “meditation,” but more accurately refers to an “absorption” into a very focused, very stable state of concentration. | | | With the abandoning of pleasure and pain, and with the previous disappearance of joy and grief, I entered upon and abided in the fourth jhana, which has neither-pain-nor-pleasure and purity of mindfulness due to equanimity. | | | Some people will experience some of the jhanas on this retreat; some people will not. |
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http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma7/enterjhana.html
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| | Buddhist Meditation |
| | Dhyana is rendered as Jhana in Pali, Ch& in Chinese, Son in Korean, and Zen in Japanese, and has, in those cultures, become synonymous with meditation as a whole. | | | The most basic form of meditation involves attending to one's breath. | | | Buddha refers to samadhi and the dhyanas in the eighth step of the eightfold path, and again at his death. |
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http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/meditation.html
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| | Abhidhamma Papers: Rupa, sense impression, the jhana factors and the hindrances |
| | In Buddhist tradition, the number five is particularly associated with man, with the head, arms and legs forming a five-pointed star. | | | The jhana factors were also presented as stages in a process. | | | The 'fiveness' of the jhana factors was also discussed, and it was recalled that the factors are referred to as the jhana limbs. |
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| | Jhana Not by the Numbers |
| | Yet despite the booklet's detailed descriptions of jhana, he himself rarely mentioned the word jhana in his conversations, and never indicated to any of his students that they had reached a particular level of jhana in their practice. | | | The booklet -- written by his teacher, Ajaan Lee -- began with a breath meditation technique and concluded with a section showing how the technique was used to induce the first four levels of jhana. | | | In the following years, I saw Ajaan Fuang hand the same booklet to each of his new students, lay and ordained. |
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| | Jhana - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links |
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