| | I am sort of surprised no one did anything with this one...
Alright, if no one else will:
piti (a Pali word, for those non-Paliglots): a noun meaning a blissful or pleasant bodily feeling which comes to development in the 2nd jhana specifically and can also generally mean rapture, usually something really nice about what one is experiencing.
libido, depending on whose definition you use: a noun meaning the sex drive, or the general individual behaviors one engages in to get laid, or basically the primal drive of the id, or sexual energy in general.
These are two different things:
piti is a quality of experience, where as libido is generally related to looking for a sexual experience
While the quality of the second jhana can have a distinctly sexual aspect to it, not everyone makes that explicit association. While libido may involve sexual energy, I personally think of it as more a basic aspect of the longing or questing for pleasure and the motive personal force driving that.
It is relatively easy to see where they intersect, as one can easily subvert the sex drive to look to jhana, in particular the second jhana, which, if one tunes it right or just has it happen that way, can be powerfully sexual.
Anyone want to add anything to that?
Daniel |