🔗📝 collection of notes on MN 111

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2023/7 MN 111 Ven. Sunyo (Ajahn Brahm Jhāna) and Ven. Analayo claim emergence with sati in 8th and 9th attainment proves jhāna is a frozen absorbed state: Also discussing exactly what the Buddha means by sati (mindfulness), and how that can not exist in Ajahn Brahm's disembodied frozen state (his redefinition of jhāna).

🔗fun with fallacies: 2021/03 MN 111 Elephant in the room, smoking gun, red herrings, sophistry
🔗clever sophistry 2021/01 sophistry: MN 111 jhana 'lite' vs. jhana 'heavy', sutta vs. vism. 'jhana'.
🔗cognitive dissonance and blind faith: 2020/09 MN 111: example of typical fallacious explanation that late Abhidhamma followers use to explain doing vipassana while in jhāna
🔗ostrich strategy 2020/05 AN 4.41 and MN 111 How B. Sujato, B. Analayo, and Ajahn Brahm understand vitakka and vicara in those suttas.