Beoman Claudiu Dragon Emu Fire Golem:
Do you mean the NS which is like a fruition? Can you describe how you attain that now that you cannot enter absorption anymore?
Yes, non-sutta NS.
I simply think, "I attained NS before; I did it in such a way; let me incline my mind to attaining NS right now."
After doing that for awhile, I've shortened it to "Let me attain NS right now."
It seems to work very often, but not 100% of the time.
Beoman Claudiu Dragon Emu Fire Golem:
To me it seems like that one depends on being absorbed pretty fully in either 8th jhana or 5th PL jhana.
"Absorption" only happens when there is someone to be absorbed. However, that doesn't appear to be the fundamental thing about jhana. The fundamental thing is, how developed are the jhana factors? In my current experience, they appear to always be highly-developed...so all it takes is an inclination towards NS (no need to build concentration in order to further promote the jhana factors).
Arahants can experience jhana according to the suttas, and they have neither 'being' nor shadow-being. Also, the suttas never talk about absorption (as far as I know), they only talk about concentration and jhana factors. And I see no reason that an arahant (or an anagami) should somehow not have access to concentration or the jhana factors. I tried to explain how this works in my practice journal, as there has been a lot of (terminological?) confusion about it.
My working theory is that various attainments raise one's default level of concentration, sometimes in bits, sometimes in jumps. For example, stream-entry raises it so much that jhana becomes very easy compared to pre-path. Similarly, it appears that this mode of experience has extraordinarily high baseline concentration compared to what came before.
As I said on KFD, in some ways it's as if I'm always in a somewhat hard arupa jhana.
Out of curiosity, do you experience absorption as exaggerating 'being', or ameliorating 'being'? I wonder if there are two different styles of jhana corresponding to this difference. I was familiar with the latter from my previous practice, and it's in this sense that I'm making a comparison with my experience now.
Beoman Claudiu Dragon Emu Fire Golem:
How is the experience of the non-event different?
It appears to be the same, but I haven't analyzed it deeply. Somehow I recognize when it happens just fine.