🔗📝 notes on JST🥪 : (J)hāna (S)andwich (T)heorem

JST🥪 ¹: (J)hāna (S)andwich (T)heorem

If the sutta passage has sīla on one end and arahantship on the other,
4 jhānas must be sandwiched in between even if the term ‘jhāna’ is not explicitly mentioned.
JST🥪 ^1.1 Suttas where it explicitly states 4 jhānas are necessary for nirvana
JST🥪 ^1.2 examples where we apply JST theorem to conclude 4 jhānas must be sandwiched in there
JST🥪 ^1.3 code phrases that mean "do 4 jhānas"
JST🥪 ² Vitakka and Vāca corollary - proof first jhāna contains verbal linguistic thoughts
JST🥪 ³ embodied samādhi corollary – Rūpa is not a-rūpa. Duh!
JST🥪 ⁴ Āneñja corollary – how do we know if the imperturbable is referring to fourth jhāna or the formless attainments?
JST🥪 ⁵ Upekkha corollary – when it’s nirvana context, upekkha is 4th jhāna

A. Brahmali cites MN 52 and MN 64 as evidence that one has to emerge from jhāna to contemplate Dharma

show fallacy by analogy: drinking coffee does not mean one first has to "exit the state of walking"

AN 9.36 formless states can not examine rūpa, therefore jhāna is not disembodied, and not mental paralysis.

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AN 9.36, MN 64, MN 111: How does Ajahn Brahm and Sujato's "Jhāna" work here?

What these 3 suttas have in common, AN 9.36, MN 64, MN 111, is the very interesting feature of explicitly describing doing vipassana, while one is in the jhāna and the first 3 formless attainments. LBT (late buddhist text) apologists, as well as Sujato, Brahm, claim that the suttas describe a jhāna where one enters a disembodied, frozen state, where vipassana is impossible until one emerges from that 'jhāna'. Since Sujato translated all the suttas, let's take a look at what he translated, and how it supports his interpretation of 'jhāna'. AN 9.36: Jhānasutta—Bhikkhu Sujato (suttacentral.net) ‘The first absorption is a basis for ending the defilements.’ ‘Paṭhamampāhaṁ, bhikkhave, jhānaṁ nissāya āsavānaṁ khayaṁ vadāmī’ti, iti kho panetaṁ vuttaṁ. That’s what I said, but why did I say it? Kiñcetaṁ paṭicca vuttaṁ? Take a mendicant who, q uite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unskill...

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