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The Fifth Jhana (The Realm of Infinite Space) - (Practising the Jhānas) 14 mentions

• janus and the the last four genres are called arupa jhanas r is a negative so um usually it's translated as the the
• um usually it's translated as the the rupajhanas and then the arupa jhanas are translated usually as the formless
• a world that correlates with the first four genres the rupa jhanas and this is the world of subtle form the world so
• that is is uh the world of subtle form the rupa jhanas again i would better say subtle materiality and if we think about
• either one then needs to um go back to a lower jhana probably the fourth genre or if you have more
• appreciative joy were good objects for jhana practice but they only went as far as the third genre
• um the relationship of insight and jhana practice and it's a it's a sutra in the
• naturally oh that's what i've got to do it could be jhana's as well but i would say
• non-practic will realize two things one is that jhana practice is a kind of art and as such is also part of and
• unless or it's not there yet so jhana practices the art of jhana practice becomes or is seen to become
• of you already get a sense of the the magic of jhana practice and this magic of playing with perception and it's the
• clear is that being able to really sustain or the demand in jhana practice to really sustain
• but a lot depends on on that in terms of our relationship with jhana practice and our ability to really sustain it is an
• need something like this to help me to help me sustain whether it's on jhana practice or emptiness or just dharma

An Introduction to the Jhanas - (Practising the Jhānas) 13 mentions

• talk about so that's what i mean by samadhi jhanas are the eight genres are a subset of that
• so for example i might say and i will say these eight jhanas it's really important that they're very clear and
• what is our emphasis what's the main point of jhana practice okay
• different teachings about what is the main point here of jhana practice so for some people for some teachers emphasize
• another person said what's the point of jhana practice and it's really that what you're doing is developing a kind of
• let's say so why the jhanas and why the mastery because it's part of that mix
• would like to give about the genres they allow the genres of jhana practice to then fit in very easily and congruently
• you see at those same kind of developments are actually part of jhana emptiness soulmaking emotional work
• i have the idea okay then then the idea i have of jhana practice needs to go with that idea of what insight is doing so i
• five aggregates in time that's what insight is and so my jhana practice needs to set me up so i can see like a
• what we tend to emphasize within the jhana practice or again as if i said this before if i
• of and then what we come to emphasize within jhana practice that's why i said but if i want a
• so the buddha called the jhanas perception attainment

Orienting to This Jhana Retreat - (Practising the Jhānas) 13 mentions

• individually i i don't even use the word jhana for a while and i might not even use the word pt something we'll talk
• unfolds and at a certain point we introduce the jhana language and framework and map
• reliably and easily for you gives takes you into jhana or takes gives rise to pt that's kind of stable and you can work
• and you're spending most of your time doing jhana practice working on that in in formal practice
• significant uh we'll talk about is one of the most significant fruits of jhana practice is malleability
• malleability what's what's in other words we are here to do jhana practice i'm very clear that's my priority that's
• kind of taking care of that so when i say jhana practice now again i elaborate on a lot of what i'm talking
• hindrances including working with the difficulty so when i say jhana practice i mean also working with the difficulties
• and slogging your way through it etc i mean also when i say jhana practice the whole relationship with practice the
• that the self as meditator all that is included in what i call jhana practice not just the lovely bits about how to
• clear simple firm resolve i'm doing jhana practice what that means practically speaking is
• including that in joanna practice by jhana practice i mean a very big picture including the times when it's really not
• this um only certainly with with regard to jhana work this kind of basis of strength of

The Sixth Jhana (The Realm of Infinite Consciousness) - (Practising the Jhānas) 11 mentions

• a's actually uh because when i thought about doing a jhana retreat that was the first thing that i
• in relation to this non-occurrence and dips in the context of jhana practice yeah they can last three days or
• how should i view my practice as a whole how should i view jhana practice how should i view myself on the path
• retreat and most of that month i didn't do anything else but jhana practice that was my intention i said the intention
• doing this for years maybe they've been doing jhana practice for years or on and off for years
• i want to get that whatever that is in this case jhana or whatever what i learn in that process what i develop in that
• you know again it's like or another way of saying is remember i said jhana practice is this it's not this it
• said that jhana practice includes the really grotty grimy sloggy boring unsexy unglamorous
• territory is and what counts as john as fruitful jhana practice doesn't always feel good and then the
• are in doing jhana practice or devoting time at any time in your life
• whatever it is i love and in this case jhana practice on this retreat how much is about negative self view

The Seventh Jhana (The Realm of Nothingness) - (Practising the Jhānas) 11 mentions

• a's actually uh because when i thought about doing a jhana retreat that was the first thing that i
• in relation to this non-occurrence and dips in the context of jhana practice yeah they can last three days or
• how should i view my practice as a whole how should i view jhana practice how should i view myself on the path
• retreat and most of that month i didn't do anything else but jhana practice that was my intention i said the intention
• doing this for years maybe they've been doing jhana practice for years or on and off for years
• i want to get that whatever that is in this case jhana or whatever what i learn in that process what i develop in that
• you know again it's like or another way of saying is remember i said jhana practice is this it's not this it
• said that jhana practice includes the really grotty grimy sloggy boring unsexy unglamorous
• territory is and what counts as john as fruitful jhana practice doesn't always feel good and then the
• are in doing jhana practice or devoting time at any time in your life
• whatever it is i love and in this case jhana practice on this retreat how much is about negative self view

A Hidden Treasure: The Relationship with the Hindrances - (Practising the Jhānas) 11 mentions

• when i was talking about the you know why are we doing jhana practice and how we conceive of the reasons for doing
• okay so working with the hindrances is something that applies pre-jhana and it certainly does of course it applies
• play part of the whole so again when i say jhana practice i mean i mean including the hindrances and and and and
• worse and i'm i'm just it's okay when you're doing jhana practice that's not the attitude we want antidotes and we
• teaching but anyway it's still a valid way of working at times but in jhana in somali practice no we've got a different
• and it's something that i think is gets clearer through jhana practice than through insight and mindfulness practice
• practice you actually notice it much more in jhana practice and you'll get much closer to it and you'll see it
• won't be or after a certain amount of practice or once i've reached x jhana it it won't happen that's the opposite of
• they'll be coming going even after you reach whatever jhana you know um in terms of what's part of your
• exactly that view that what we're doing in jhana practice is somehow allowing a kind of karmic
• very up and down but there is a movement over a long time with jhana practice that what what might manifest more as

Q & A, and Short Talk - (Practising the Jhānas) 9 mentions

• i don't know if anyone's counted how many times he talks about jhana in there but it's a lot it's really really a lot
• and then there's a lot a lot a lot of sitters on jhana practice so we've we've kind of inherited a sense
• rapture okay so when we come to talk about jhana factors i couldn't find the suto it's
• word is pointing to but they don't qualify as jhana factors i think there's something that once you
• second genre as a kind of transition jhana pt and sucker in the first genre with a
• nudged maneuvered into a jarnic state like the third jhana um if you hang out there so this is the
• involved in this kind of thing i'm actually titrating jhana factors um in in ways that can build and and
• experience there's less duality between vagina and a not jhana or meditation and the rest of the world or even the janic
• certainly more than one passage where the buddha describes the each jhana as an escape

The Third Jhana - (Practising the Jhānas) 9 mentions

• i don't know if anyone's counted how many times he talks about jhana in there but it's a lot it's really really a lot
• and then there's a lot a lot a lot of sitters on jhana practice so we've we've kind of inherited a sense
• rapture okay so when we come to talk about jhana factors i couldn't find the suto it's
• word is pointing to but they don't qualify as jhana factors i think there's something that once you
• second genre as a kind of transition jhana pt and sucker in the first genre with a
• nudged maneuvered into a jarnic state like the third jhana um if you hang out there so this is the
• involved in this kind of thing i'm actually titrating jhana factors um in in ways that can build and and
• experience there's less duality between vagina and a not jhana or meditation and the rest of the world or even the janic
• certainly more than one passage where the buddha describes the each jhana as an escape

True to Your Deepest Desires (Talk and Short Guided Meditation) - (Practising the Jhānas) 9 mentions

• things that apply much more generally to maybe any jannah or jhana practice in general
• us deeper on the whole path deeper on the jhana path in in a in a full way and again you know i know people
• why is that significant and how is that significant a for jhana practice b for what it's going to deliver and c in the
• sukkah but um in the first genre for example or any jhana you could have a secondary nimeter of say a bright white
• really just move back and forth at ease between ajhana and its adjacent any jhana and it's adjacent china so if i'm
• buddha's words that we've heard before um describing the jhana pt suka um whole body pervaded no spot with leaving no
• practice and in a way then practicing the jhanas and doing that wholeheartedly and being
• believe it's the end and the ultimate truth when one hasn't done jhana's five six seven eight
• whole of the dharma what we're how the what we're doing in the whole of jhana practice fits into that this kind of

Jhana Practice - (Samatha Meditation) 8 mentions

• i want to talk about john or john of practice so jhana is another pali word is j h a n a jhana lovely word uh diana in
• practice so jhana is another pali word is j h a n a jhana lovely word uh diana in sanskrit
• and just see what happens inside so jhana practice what does it mean this word janna it used to be in the old
• if we talk about deep sanitary practice we're talking about and talk about jhana practice and there's a huge uh debate
• it gives apples and and the fruit of jhana is is insight is peace his well-being
• together or whatever there'll be a sense of the breath and the samata and jhana practice will come into the whole of
• then it may be uh something to move into usually if i'm teaching jhana practice i don't even use the word jhana
• usually if i'm teaching jhana practice i don't even use the word jhana because again it's just something that