Timeline for Are we Mindful in Jhana?
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| Sep 25, 2021 at 12:39 | comment | added | user8527 | I added a few paragraphs defining 'sati' which is usually translated as 'Mindfulness'. An increasingly popular translation is also 'retention'. | |
| Sep 25, 2021 at 12:37 | history | edited | user8527 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 25, 2021 at 12:05 | comment | added | user8527 | In other words many states qualify to be called jhana due to the maturity of the faculties necessary for their attainment and the seclusion that there then is, they are right concentration if they are factor of the path & thus conducive to the undoing of rebirth. | |
| Sep 25, 2021 at 11:54 | comment | added | user8527 | An3.63 is a different Sutta, it's The Buddha speaking there. Very generally speaking jhana are wholesome states conducive to development, at that time one is secluded from unwholesome mindstates. The thing with lights & visions, those vision attainments are conducive to perfecting the power of concentration (samadhi, it's power is non-distractedness). The lights and visions are to be developed, there is nothing wrong with that but it's not the only kind of development, this is what i wanted to get across | |
| Sep 25, 2021 at 11:45 | comment | added | enRaiser | Thanks a lot.. I guess there is big different between How sariputa dwels in Jhana and How moglana dwels in Jhana. Sariputa never loose mindfulness, and sampjana. and I guess tibetans are follower of moglana and theravadin are followers of sariputa. I also noted in AN3.63 sariputa says he is walking and doing daily activity in the state of 4th Jhana. So he is not absorbed like How Samatha practitioners describes absorbtion. | |
| Sep 25, 2021 at 11:04 | history | edited | user8527 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 25, 2021 at 10:57 | history | answered | user8527 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |