No Place to Go | Eric R #8 | 9.21.22

Eric and Dhammarato look at the concepts of “importance” and “progress” as a way of understanding that there’s no place to go after first jhāna. #jhana #progress #enlightenment 

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00:00 What’s important? Being alive and knowing right now

06:05 First jhāna is enough

09:07 Defining progress; ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’; a mentality of dissatisfaction 

18:43 The factors of first jhāna; secluded from unwholesome states of mind

21:47 Breathe, think, enjoy wholesome thoughts; do things happily with all your mind

28:19 The path to the higher jhānas: applied and sustained wholesome thoughts; relaxed satisfaction (MN 111)

41:46 What is perception? How does it work? Plastering things with the past

43:38 No place to go after first jhāna; no more progress to be made

48:18 The waveform of first jhāna; controlling our feelings

55:04 Stop wanting what you don’t have

56:58 Comparisons with yoga