This is what the sutta is describing.
Many well known monks, many elder monks, obviously skilled in all 4 jhānas (the sutta uses jhānā plural, so it's not only talking about first jhāna)
are bothered by the loud noises of royal carriages, horses, royals yelling,
WHILE they are in the 4 jhānas meditating,
and the Buddha agrees they were right to leave the noise and go somewhere quieter.
It's significant the sutta mentions MANY skilled, well known, and elder monks,
to emphasize this isn't just a weak isolated outlier monk who has poor jhāna skill.
In other words, it's expected that even skilled experienced jhāna meditators are bothered by especially loud noises, because you can hear sounds in jhāna.
Many well known monks, many elder monks, obviously skilled in all 4 jhānas (the sutta uses jhānā plural, so it's not only talking about first jhāna)
are bothered by the loud noises of royal carriages, horses, royals yelling,
WHILE they are in the 4 jhānas meditating,
and the Buddha agrees they were right to leave the noise and go somewhere quieter.
It's significant the sutta mentions MANY skilled, well known, and elder monks,
to emphasize this isn't just a weak isolated outlier monk who has poor jhāna skill.
In other words, it's expected that even skilled experienced jhāna meditators are bothered by especially loud noises, because you can hear sounds in jhāna.
Heretical redefinition of "jhāna" that contradicts Buddha's Jhāna above
The next video clip is showing a monk doing Visuddhimagga and Ajahn Brahm's heretical redefinition of "jhāna", where it's not possible to hear sounds, not possible to think, not possible to feel mosquito bites or iron thorns while they are in their frozen disembodied stupor.
Now ask yourself, how does Vism. + Ajahn Brahm's heretical "jhāna"
resemble anything that AN 10.72 is talking about?
All the gory details proving the point here:
collection of notes on AN 10.72 thorns (hearing sound in all 4 jhānas)
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