Practicing the Jhanas: Traditional Concentration Meditation as Presented by the Venerable Pa Auk Sayadaw

By Stephen Snyder

it is a transparent and in-depth presentation of the conventional Theravadin focus meditation often called jhāna perform, from authors who've practiced the jhānas in retreat below the tips of 1 of the nice residing meditation masters, Pa Auk Sayadaw. The authors describe the thoughts and their effects, in keeping with their very own adventure.

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Commence by means of taking the kasiṇa as an item into first jhāna. do that as fast because the jhāna might be stabilized utilizing that kasiṇa as an item. Then take the explicit kasiṇa in the course of the moment, 3rd, and fourth jhānas, additionally one after the other. As earlier than, upon exiting jhāna, cost the bhavanga with the knowledge eye to substantiate that the considered necessary jhāna elements are current. over the years, you could go through every one decrease jhāna in a question of some mins. as soon as all decrease jhānas are accomplished with the explicit kasiṇa, entry each one higher jhāna as defined with earth kasiṇa. entire the 1st 4 jhānas utilizing the actual kasiṇa after which both see tiny holes within the kasiṇa or specialize in the sting the place the kasiṇa touches house. Then eliminate the kasiṇa to bare the gap that holds it because the base of boundless house. continue as formerly defined during the 4 higher jhānas. The aspect (earth, water, hearth, and air) kasiṇas are accomplished first to purify and unfasten your connection to the weather on your physique and all materiality. Then the colour kasiṇas are accomplished, purifying your attachment to physically shades. This, too, is finished to refine your realization for the sunshine kasiṇa, that is the main subtle of the kasiṇas within the immaterial jhānas. utilizing the sunshine kasiṇa as an access element resulting in the delicacy of the 8th jhāna of neither belief nor nonperception is an exquisitely sophisticated and refined event. The purification that happens within the immaterial top jhānas is soft but very centred and severe. you need to be keen to permit the purity to penetrate your whole being and lifestyles. we will be able to attest that once the 5 jhāna masteries are attained, utilizing the ultimate mild kasiṇa and finishing the ultimate jhāna of the bottom of neither conception nor nonperception, there's a deep and profound figuring out of by no means being a similar individual back. The purification keeps engaged on us and later manifests in our lives in unforeseen ways in which switch our ideals, reviews, behavior, and behaviour. extra very important, this custom has altered the continued experiential understanding of the manifestation of all that we see—from our personal body-minds to the cloth global round us. Even now, years later, we will be able to event at any second the profundity of information because it is skilled within the 8th jhāna. there's an ongoing notion that each one materiality manifests from the secret of the unconditioned, down throughout the immaterial nation-states, into the cloth nation-states, and finally showing as materiality—as the phrases in this web page and your conception of them, because the breath that we're respiring as we write those phrases. even if the day-by-day adventure of jhāna absorption is previous, this visceral realizing is still, affecting and informing every one second of expertise and its dating to the secret. we've got traversed the main tender of meditations. With this very pristine, subtle focus and purification as a starting place, we subsequent flow into the protecting meditations, which organize the meditator to ultimately adopt the vipassanā perform.

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