| | Yeah, jhana is fun, and a relief from sitting with nothing interesting going on except back and knee pain and our issues. However, once we get into it, the tendency is to stick there, and if developing just good feelings, interesting experiences and deeper concentration states is your goal, no problem, you're on the right track. However, there are other options, such as using that stronger concentration to gain direct insight into the true nature of phenomena, which I tend to label using the Three Characteristics, impermanence, suffering and no-self, and thus gain in insight and fundamental wisdom. Now you all have options, and that sure beats the hard, nothin' going on sits that most people start with, and it provides faith that if the early territory is interesting, the later territory will be even more interesting. For Josh0: the spreading vibrations and orgasmic stuff is likely A&P: beware the side effects that tend to follow it and read up on them so as to know how to skillfully handle that territory. |