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6/23/2025, 3:54:10 PM
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>>24485686
That anon is right. Every spiritual practitioner should learn to attain and master the jhanas; everything on the path becomes easier after that.
He makes it sound like the method for attaining jhana doesn't matter, but in my experience, it's everything. A bad method won't just keep you from reaching jhana, it will actively frustrate you, which is the exact opposite of what the states are for. You see this constantly with the """M*hayana""" practitioners—most of them have no clue what the jhanas even are. You'll have guys who spent 12 years in a retreat and are still suffering physically from meditation, which is insane. Once you're properly concentrated, your body should be filled with sukha-niramisa and you should feel completely at ease.
My own experience was a mess for a while. I started with zhiné (which is shit, by the way; 99.99% of Tibetans are as incompetent at jhāna as they are at everything else). Then I moved to zazen, which is much better, and Zen has a lot of interesting breathing practices and tips if you have a good source. But even then, I ran into serious energy blockages (especially from the Tibetan garbage, man, fuck that stuff) and had very few notable experiences, so I basically stopped meditating.
Then, recently, I started practicing the jhanas following the instructions of Ajahn Sona (PBUH) and immediately experienced the breath nimitta. It felt like a "cool and airy emptiness of the head," not some kind of light show. As the great glorious Ajahn Chah (PBUH) said, there's nothing special about a light—my flashlight has one. With Ajahn Sona's (PBUH) method, I've never experienced a single blockage.
>>24485686
That anon is right. Every spiritual practitioner should learn to attain and master the jhanas; everything on the path becomes easier after that.
He makes it sound like the method for attaining jhana doesn't matter, but in my experience, it's everything. A bad method won't just keep you from reaching jhana, it will actively frustrate you, which is the exact opposite of what the states are for. You see this constantly with the """M*hayana""" practitioners—most of them have no clue what the jhanas even are. You'll have guys who spent 12 years in a retreat and are still suffering physically from meditation, which is insane. Once you're properly concentrated, your body should be filled with sukha-niramisa and you should feel completely at ease.
My own experience was a mess for a while. I started with zhiné (which is shit, by the way; 99.99% of Tibetans are as incompetent at jhāna as they are at everything else). Then I moved to zazen, which is much better, and Zen has a lot of interesting breathing practices and tips if you have a good source. But even then, I ran into serious energy blockages (especially from the Tibetan garbage, man, fuck that stuff) and had very few notable experiences, so I basically stopped meditating.
Then, recently, I started practicing the jhanas following the instructions of Ajahn Sona (PBUH) and immediately experienced the breath nimitta. It felt like a "cool and airy emptiness of the head," not some kind of light show. As the great glorious Ajahn Chah (PBUH) said, there's nothing special about a light—my flashlight has one. With Ajahn Sona's (PBUH) method, I've never experienced a single blockage.
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