Highlights from the Comments on Jhanasastralcodexten.substack.com 2 pointsmudita3 years ago1 commentSaveHideCopy link On HNComments−incomingpain3ySo anyone curious to try, I recommend first understandings how to properly meditate. After you have good experience with this can you move onto the jhanas. I highly recommend: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Right-Concentration-Practical-Guide...If you know how to do step 1 and then follow this book to the T. You will experience the jhanas.I however caveat, you don't want to do this. It's a bad decision. You don't want to do this, really.Is Jhana Really Better Than Sex?Absolutely, up to the third jhana.Can Jhana Really Substitute For Other Pleasures?The author clearly has not walked the full path. Then again someone who did would not write this blog.really helped people avoid addictionsAbsolutely no question.IV. What Can Science Tell Us About Jhanas?The science path is a bad decision.https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Buddhism-True-Philosophy-Enligh...Let folks like Robert Wright make this mistake for you. For someone like him, he almost certainly has lost the ability to enter jhana.
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So anyone curious to try, I recommend first understandings how to properly meditate. After you have good experience with this can you move onto the jhanas. I highly recommend: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Right-Concentration-Practical-Guide...
If you know how to do step 1 and then follow this book to the T. You will experience the jhanas.
I however caveat, you don't want to do this. It's a bad decision. You don't want to do this, really.
Absolutely, up to the third jhana.
The author clearly has not walked the full path. Then again someone who did would not write this blog.
Absolutely no question.
The science path is a bad decision.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Buddhism-True-Philosophy-Enligh...
Let folks like Robert Wright make this mistake for you. For someone like him, he almost certainly has lost the ability to enter jhana.