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 this article is part of a series:  🔗📚: collection of articles  for an eventual book, "Jhāna Passaddhi Baselines" Some examples: 1. you need to fart and you can't fart, or it comes out with difficulty. before you fart, there are parts of the body that feel tight, even sharp pain sometimes. Remember those bodily sensations. That's a baseline for jhana blockage.  Now how does it feel after you fart? The body is much softer, smoother, pain is gone, body feels lighter. Remember those bodily sensations. That's a baseline for jhana blockage removal.  2. Sometimes some people stutter when they talk. There are energy blockages. If the energy is going smoothly, unhindered, they won't stutter. 3. How many pushups, pull ups, squats, or situps can you do? What does it feel like as your doing them? How does the body sensation change? Someone like Jack la lanne, a fitness expert from the 20th century, he could do pushups effortlessly hundreds at a time, smooth, no muscle

  this article is part of a series:  🔗📚: collection of articles  for an eventual book, "Jhāna Passaddhi Baselines" Notice the title of sutta  AN 6.73  : (hint: the title is not "access concentration") 73. Paṭhamata-j-jhāna-sutta 73. First jhāna (1st) “Cha, bhikkhave, dhamme appahāya abhabbo paṭhamaṃ jhānaṃ upasampajja viharituṃ. “monks, without giving up these [bad] dharmas you can’t enter and remain in the first jhāna. Katame cha? What six? Kāma-c-chandaṃ, 1. Desire for sensual pleasures, byāpādaṃ, 2. ill will, thina-middhaṃ, 3. dullness and drowsiness, uddhacca-kukkuccaṃ, 4. restlessness and remorse, vicikicchaṃ, 5. doubt, kāmesu kho panassa ādīnavo 6. And the drawbacks of sensual pleasures na yathā-bhūtaṃ samma-p-paññāya su-diṭṭho hoti. have not been {well-seen}, as-they-actually-are, (with) right-discernment. #6 is The most important First Jhana baseline of all. Not the ability to be completely still, or free from any thoughts,  but the ability to see the fir

 Link to this article:  🔗📚: collection of articles  for an eventual book, "Jhāna Passaddhi Baselines" articles in this series: (read intro and remainder of this article first before following the linked series) *  The most important First Jhana baseline of all, the one you should be checking for progress every day *  what does energy blockage feel like? many concrete examples Introduction Read this sutta. The whole book is essentially a long commentary with detailed ideas on how to put it into your practice, moment by moment, activity by activity. ●  SN 47.8  -  🔗🔊  9m,  sūda : 👩‍🍳 🍳 The cook: simile of cook: how to use  4sp🐘  (learning the sign (nimitta))to take you into jhanas. Obtaining pleasant abiding here and now is a code phrase for the first 3 jhānas ( AN 6.29 ), or all 4 jhānas ( AN 4.41 ). Passaddhi = pacification, relaxation, the same as "fang song" ("release tension") that taiji quan teachers tell students for decades. Most of them thin

 part of a series:  🔗 8 vimokkha: collection of research articles   SP fluent means I spell out some of the implications from the terse formula, pulling in information from related suttas. The result, is a sutta that you could actually follow plain English meditation instructions and not be completely baffled by code language with inscrutable meaning.  Also very fascinating to note that  VRJ🐍  (V)isuddhi-magga (Re)-definition of (J)hana and  Jabrama🤡-jhana  would fall under the second liberation. In other words, if they wanted to, they could have legally fit their meditation system into the EBT, without redefining important basic words like "body" and "thinking", and destroying the coherence of jhana and the suttas in general.  So the question you should be asking VRJ and Ajahn Brahm followers, if their redefinition of "jhana" is supposed to fall under vimokkha liberation #1, then what is internal rupa and external rupa exactly, and what is liberation

  4👑☸  →  STED  →  5uk   External articles What's the difference between Viññāṇa (consciousness) and Sañña (perceptions)? MN 18 must vedana precede sañña? 12ps dependent origination question: why phassa is meeting of three, not just "when eye contacts visible object, eye-consciousness arises" dhammawheel: (useful tips from assaji)  Vedana as sense impression

Internal 4👑☸ → EBpedia📚 → 4bv☮️ 4 divine-dwellings. External articles 4bv☮️ Bank🏦: Bank of Brahma viharas - inspiring stories, videos to power your practice of metta and 4bv : https://notesonthedhamma.blogspot.com/2021/04/4bv-bank-bank-of-brahma-viharas.html Also ignites your pīti pamojja (mental joy, rapture, rejoicing in skillful Dharmas) to power your jhāna. “The right thing to do.” : A 6th Grader Saves the Lives of Two People on the Same Day AN 5.161 I solved a few mysteries this week, regarding mudita and upekkha as part of 4 brahma viharas Mudita (rejoicing in skillful Dharmas) 🔗📝 collection of notes on 'mudita' (rejoicing in skillful Dharmas) Metta reborn in hell after correct practice of metta - how to understand this? AN 4.126 Metta Sutta: does this practice cap out at non-returner rebirth and not arahantship? How you practice metta (for a long time)? Metta sutta Snp1.8 KN Snp 1.8, Kp 9: a new translation of Metta Sutta where the simile of mother protecting ch

  Re: Piti and pamojja Edit Delete Report Quote Post   by  frank k  »  Mon May 24, 2021 6:43 am I looked through the first 4 nikayas searching for 'mudit'. I can not find anything supporting muditaa as a brahmavihara being "sympathy for others' welfare" with a different meaning than mudita (modati and pamojja). Most places where muditaa as a bv is cited, is just stating the standard 4bv formula, or mentioning a list of the 4. The only places I could find some meaning is a couple of passages like MN 62, purpose of 4 brahma-viharas “mettaṃ, rāhula, bhāvanaṃ bhāvehi. "good-will, ******, meditation; meditate (with that). mettañhi te, rāhula, bhāvanaṃ bhāvayato (when you) {meditate with} {good-will} meditation, yo byāpādo so pahīyissati. one's ill-will ** will-be-abandoned. karuṇaṃ, rāhula, bhāvanaṃ bhāvehi. "compassion, ******, meditation; meditate (with that). karuṇañhi te, rāhula, bhāvanaṃ bhāvayato (when you) {meditate with} {compassion} meditation, y

4👑☸  →  EBpedia📚  → Ek'agga , ekaggata: single-preoccupation; Ekodi , ekodi-bhavā: transcended into singularity ek[ī/i]-bhāva, ekī-bhavati: see related terms under  Ek'agga ekatta: solitude. see related terms under  Ek'agga External resources summary of all occurrences in first 4 pali nikayas Catalogue of Ekagga/Ekaggata Usages   summary of all occurrences in first 4 pali nikayas Catalogue of Ekodi Usages "singular focus" = ekaggata, ekagga, is a universal skill, not just a buddhist thing.

Other translators render abhijjha as "greed" or "covetousness". I go with 'avarice' (violating my rule of using simple plain English as much as possible), because there are many pali words for 'greed', but abhijja and avarice both start with letter 'a' so it makes it easier to remember that connection.  Definition of avarice : excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain : GREEDINESS, CUPIDITY  STED 4sp (famous Sati-'paṭṭhāna formula) kāye kāyā-(a)nu-passī viharati Body-as-body – continuous-seeing (he) abides-in, ātāpī sampajāno satimā, (he is) ardent 🏹, (a) lucid-discerner 👁, (a) rememberer 🐘, vineyya loke abhij jhā-do-manassaṃ; vanquishing worldly avarice -(and)-distressed-mental-states. vedanāsu vedanā-(a)nu-passī viharati Experienced-sensations-(as)-experienced-sensations – continuous-seeing (he) abides-in ātāpī sampajāno satimā, (he is) ardent 🏹, (a) lucid-discerner 👁, (a) rememberer 🐘, vineyya loke abhij jhā-do-manassaṃ;

 part of a series:  🔗 collection of articles on oral tradition Prime example: Say you spend 20 min. every morning reciting important sutta passages. Cetana = volition, intention, you issue an intention to recollect a particular sutta passage sati = memory, remembering, recollecting that sutta passage vitakka = is a superficial discursive thinking of the sutta passage you are recollecting, you think about it to the extent that you know the words you're recollecting are accurate or not according to sati's memory of it, or whether the words you recollect seem fuzzy and you're not sure if you misspelled or mis-remembered some parts. vicāra = evaluation, pondering, exploration of the contents of the linked vitakka that directed your thoughts to a particular part of a memorized sutta passage.  Vicara is part of Dhamma-vicaya-sambjojjhanga awakening factor, it's evaluating the vitakka dhamma you recollected and determining it's meaning, considering whether that Dharma is

(this article is part of a series: SN 48.40 🔗 de-corrupting and reconstructing  )  I highlight in yellow the parts that contradict a straightforward interpretation based on EBT standard jhana formula, 7sb awakening factor formula (piti is somanassa, sukha is bodily sukha indriya following passadhi).  And then I compare with an excerpt from MN 102 (AVS) Aviparitaka Sutra (agama parallel to SN 48.40) . . (has domanassa, dukkha, somanassa, sukha and upekkha cease successively) (domanassa-indriya [mental pain] ceases in 1st jhāna) (dukkha-indriya [physical pain] ceases in 2nd jhāna) (somanassa-indriya [mental pleasure] ceases in 3rd jhāna) (Sukha-indriya [physical pleasure] ceases in 4th jhāna) (upekkha-indriya [physical & mental lack of sāta] ceases in saññā-vedayita-nirodhaṃ ) SN 48.40 Uppaṭipāṭika Irregular Order (dukkha-indriya [physical pain] ceases in 1st jhāna) (domanassa-indriya [mental pain] ceases in 2nd jhāna) (Sukha-indriya [physical pleasure] ceases in 3rd jhāna) (somanas

(this article is part of a series: SN 48.40 🔗 de-corrupting and reconstructing  )  This article is short, and explores two fascinating points: 1. Vism.'s Buddhaghosa says the sukha is experienced by a physical body in third jhana! 2. Vism.'s Buddhaghosa (seems to) disagree with B. Sujato and Peter Harvey interpretation of "sukha with the kaya body" in 3rd jhana, as a metaphorical body that "personally experiences something". A very interesting thing about Vism. third jhana gloss that I hadn't noticed before Tse Fu Kuan pointed it out in his "clarifications of vedana in jhana" article.  1. Buddhaghosa in Vism. seems to be interpreting "sukham ca kayena..." as a physical body that experiences the pleasure of jhana! (Vism. 3rd jhana standard formula gloss: sukhañca kāyena paṭisaṃ-vedetī) 175 ♦ idāni sukhañca kāyena paṭisaṃ-vedetī'ti Now, as to the clause he feels bliss with his body: ettha kiñcāpi tatiyaj-jhāna-sam-aṅgino sukha-paṭi