suttas with explicit vipassana in jhānas (and/or formless perception attainments)

suttas with explicit vipassana while in jhānas (and/or formless perception attainments)

AN ^4.41.4.3 glossing S&S🐘💭 sati + sampajāno doing vipassana from 3rd and 4th jhāna formula. This is included as part of all 7 perception attainments in MN 111.
AN ^4.41.4.4 Taking S&S all the way to arahantship, destroying Āsavas. This is done in AN 9.36, MN 52, etc.
AN ^9.34 covers similar territory to AN ^9.41, except Sāriputta is giving the talk, and this seems to be emphasizing it's a common experience for meditators to expect 4 jhānas and samādhi to have impurities can interrupt one while one is in jhāna.
AN ^9.36 realize nirvana while doing vipassana in 4 jhānas and seven perception attainments, or after emerging from 8th and 9th
AN ^9.41 the types of subverbal impurities that can occur while one is in 4 jhānas and 9 attainments.
AN ^11.16 doing vipassana while in 4 jhānas, 7 perception attainments, 4bv☮️ brahmaviharas with sampajāno/pajānāti and upekkha, become arahant or nonreturner
DN ^21.0.2 Buddha in jhāna hears musician, does worldly vipassana analyzing structure of poem.
MN ⁵² same as AN ^11.16
MN ⁶⁴ same as AN ^9.36 except without archer similes
MN ¹¹¹ vipassana while in 4 jhānas and seven perception attainments, or after emerging from 8th and 9th
MN ^121.6 doing vipassana in formless attainments
MN ^121.8 doing vipassana with animitta samādhi connected to all 6 senses of body
MN ^121.9 attaining arahantship while in animitta samādhi
MN ^122.3.3 vipassana from animitta samādhi or 4 jhānas
MN ^122.10 you should observe rise and fall of 5uk aggregates, from animitta samādhi or 4 jhānas
MN ^125.3.10 4sp🐘 can do vipassana with no kāma-vitakka/thoughts of sensuality = first jhāna
SA ^474.1 Ānanda while in jhāna, examine 3 types of vedana

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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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