Dear Dhamma Friends, The Dhamma practitioner has been walking in the mid of shower of feeling. Sometimes, there arises a wave of storm of feeling, after which...
In the year 1960,a humble red indian warrior seer,revealed the secrets of a very ancient and mysterious knowledge,of awareness and the universe,dating back to...
Hi everyone, I have been on this group for a while. Its good that Jeff has this Jhana Support Group. Spiritual experience can create what clinically are called...
Hello Sue, I am so glad that you are enjoying the conversation, so am I. The darkness that I speak of is certainly accessible to all peoples at all times, but...
Hello stalker_warrior, I checked out your site, very nice, but Don Juan was a fictional character created by Carlos Castaneda, an anthropologist, who used to...
Hi Jeff, I have found that your technical description of Nirvana is almost identifcal to my Teacher's. The last absorption is cessation, voidness, so it is...
Jeff, Sue, Christopher and all! Yes, I agree, this conversation is helpful and so great to have others with which we can relate about our journey! Sue, you...
Hello neoncrunch, and thank-you for your point of view on OOB and your interesting invocation of the Pali canon through using the term 'nama-rupa', however I...
Hello Fred, yes, the black is much like the black hole, as you say, because it is the utter absence of light, as well as sound and any other sensation as well....
Dear Dhamma Friends, There are five aggregates called khandha. They are rupakkhandha or aggregate of material, vedanakkhandha or aggregate of feeling,...
When you say darkness, don't you mean emptiness, tao ? There is a huge distinction between the two. I find the problem with Buddhism is that too many technical...
Rick Mayweather
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Feb 2, 2004 5:57 pm
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This is interesting discussion. It is possible to question some of the semantics involved. I more often associate the word "enlightenment" with "bodhi" than...
I talked with a soulmate of mine this weekend, who has been living in and is terrified of that Void. I tried to convince her of the divine nature of it,...
Hello Jeff, I have only gone through one state which I identifiy as Arupa-Jhana, it was all white and there was nothing except a consciousness of fulfillment....
Sieve... The rational mind, in its hope to define the unimaginable... dismays at its failure... in its sieve-like attempt to hold even one drop of sacred...
Hello Rick, and thank-you for your kind questions on the Dark. I agree with you religions, such as Buddhism, tend to rely heavily upon metaphors, which can be...
Hello. I am very much enjoying this conversation. Please excuse my jumping in the middle. I have been reading along for some time, but this topic of...
Dear Friends! Excerpts from The Uddesa Vibhanga Sutta – Majjhima Nikaya 138 "The Blessed One said this: "A monk should investigate in such a way that, his...
Although I do not think everyone is happy with my biological explanations of Jhana, I do think that you need more of an answer about what is happenning to you...
I did not really get the sense that there was a comprehensive medical explanation for jhana, any more than there is a comprehensive medical explanation for...
Hi there, The Abhidhammattha - sangaha was written as a handbook/summary to the Abhidhamma some 1500 years after the Buddha walked the earth. All the best ...
Hello Fred, basically if you have a lucid experience that erases the physical reality, then we can call it a nonmaterial absorption (arupa-jhana). As for your...
Hello Karen, and welcome to this dialog. From your description it does sound like you have touched upon the black. It might be worth pointing out that both...
Hello Sue, I can't seem to find the quote right now, but somewhere it the Pali canon is a discussion of another "body" that is more "rarefied" because it is...
Hello Vacchagotta, very interesting thoughts, however in your concluding paragraph you say there is something, "bodhi," after nibbana. Since the experience of...
like I said much of this is unfinished business. even enlightenment is unfinished business anichang change is dependable. ... the ... it ... resonate ... a ......
Hello Christopher, from what I understand the void is beyond the devas, so they are not likely to be able to give you any information on it. When one has ...
Hello eznir, I find your conclusion to not let "one's consciousness be attached to Jhana states," as an odd conclusion to this Sutta, while the sutta certainly...
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