🐴🐎💭 You can lead a horse to first jhāna, but you can't make him think.

🐴🐎💭 You can lead a horse to first jhāna, 

but you can't make him think.

 A comprehensive study on V&V in the EBT.

With detailed pali + english audit.

Vism. Redefinition of Jhana

EBT Jhāna

update 2019-aug:

V&V mistranslation by B. Sujato and B. Analayo, 2019-aug update

(notes not incorporated into book yet)

B. Sujato redefinition of Jhana

The Book supersedes material from previous blog articles: 

• MN 19, MN 78, MN 125 ❤️ When Bhikkhu Anālayo met occam's razor
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• book: Bhikkhu Anālayo's mistranslation of V&V

V&V💭 and the relativity of wrong

B. Sujato third jhāna, "The body as metaphor", mor...

Why vitakka unequivocally means 'thinking' in jhana, and why B. Sujato pretends otherwise