Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Comparison of Vism. and KN Pe confirms the crimes of Vism. in redefining Jhāna


Here is the full KN Pe four jhanas gloss, word commentary, based on B. Nanamoli's translation from the PTS. I highlight the parts that are relevant to mental/physical, 7sb awakening factors, and the number of jhana factors completely different than late Theravada's 'five jhana factors' scheme. I've added some comments to the highlights in curly braces { }.  Their fantastic explanation of  vitakka/vicara section of course speaks for itself, and is so explicit and detailed there's no way Vism. or B. Sujato could twist it into meaning "having mind glued to a visual kasina."

You can see the straight  EBT (early buddhist text, pali) approach I used to establish which factors in jhana are mental and physical, are very similar,  nearly the same as what they arrived at in KN Pe. I based my conclusion from AN 48.37 five vedana/indriya scheme, and 7 awakening factors frequently repeated sequence from SN 46.3.

solving the murder mystery from 3rd jhāna

KN Pe is the basis of much the commentary and Abhidhamma method and style. You can see it in Vimt., and you can see how radically twisted and altered it becomes in Vism.

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