Jhana | Brandon #3 | 12.21.21

Dhammarato and Brandon talk about jhana.

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0:00 - The first jhana is the foundation of practice

4:00 - Jhanas are an imponderable

8:00 - The 6 jhana factors (6th factor = relaxation of the physical body)

9:30 - You need all of the jhana factors to get into jhana

12:30 - Select your terminology wisely: The problem with jhana as "Absorption"

18:30 - Select your terminology wisely: The problem with jhana as "Concentration" 

20:00 - Dry insight (trying to do vipassana without jhana) = a really stupid way to practice.

21:00 - Enthusiasm becomes the fuel that replaces right effort.

22:00 - Applied and sustain thought

24:00 - Long knowing breaths are the foundation

25:00 - Knowing the hindrances are present gives you your power over them (to chose to remain hindered or chuck 'em out)

26:00 - Mindfulness is only step one, gladdening is step two

28:00 - Right effort is the price of freedom from effort

28:30 - Source your satisfaction in thoughts of the present moment

30:00 - Delete dukkha BY replacing it with sukkha

31:15 - Confidence/Saddha

34:00 - Confidence leads to piti

35:00 - Piti is the antidote to victimhood

36:00 - Piti is playing by your own rules

38:00 - Allow yourself to enjoy meditating

39:00 - Satisfaction is the cookie

40:45 - Correctly practicing leads to all of the factors leads to the possibility for jhana

42:00 - Quick recap of 6 jhana factors

43:00 - High vs low quality mind moments

44:00 - Wholesome thoughts must be repetitive

45:00 - What is meant by a mind that is "fit for work"

46:30 - Best sutta to start with? there isn't one

50:00 - Transmission

52:00 - Wake up, rinse the mind, breath deep, repeat.

53:00 - Our thinking conditions our feeling

55:00 - The buddha was a lion 

56:45 - Become like a cat, above it all

58:00 - The fundamentals are what is crucial