Stefan F:
Hi Nick,
im a bit confused after watched the Video. It seems that i have a different understanding of the samatha jahnas. I spend some month in the pa auk Monastery in Burma and also listened to dharma talks from ajahn brahm. And when they describing the Jahnas they said omong other things that u lose the sense of ur body completly. so that its no longer possible to feel ur body or move or speak.
although these days they have no absorption quality to them as what needed to get absorbed is no longer arising
what do u mean by that?
greetings
Hi Stefan,
There are many different 'takes' on what jhana is and is not, how absorbed one must be, how not so absorbed one must be. I was going more so into vipassana jhana in those videos. Here is an explanation for it:
http://thehamiltonproject.blogspot.com/2011/01/talking-in-jhanas.html
Once AF (actually free), the sense of being/me-ness is no longer sensed. This flow of being seemed to be what needed to be directed to be one-pointed and absorbed, so that it did not manifest as the hinderances and so that certain mental focuses (of each of the jhanas) was possible. I only experience the mental focus of each jhana now and no absorption quality due to getting af recently.
Edit: Check out the jhana sticky thread at the top of the page (DhO) by Ian for some good info on jhana.
Nick