| | There are two walkthoughs here, the first one is from Kenneth and Nick's walkthrough of jhanas that is on youtube. The second is I believe from the Hamilton Project featuring Nick, Owen and Clayton. I'll put that one in the next post. The sources for these contain more, but this is just the Pureland part of the descriptions and contains the Kenneth Folk style of 5 Pureland jhanas.
Kenneth and Nick:
k that it's like that focus on nothingness it's still a focus and here from there it kind of all zooms in whoomp i feel that there is some kind of centering of focus or landing on the pineal gland or whatever that pressure point is behind the 3rd eye and then all things just go weird and like moment to moment there's like some perception and then then there's no registering of what's happening and something the mind is registering what it's feeling registering and then not registering
k nice
n but there's like a the eyes kind of zoom in almost cross eyed
k yes
n it lands on that pressure point behind the 3rd eye
k yes it's the eyes are looking at something in there
n yeah
k and when they contact it it's an indescribable situation and i can't say whether there's anything going on there or not
n it just feels like if feels like a it's not the same as say when i would try and get nirodha and i would have an experience of blipping in and out of a fruition but there's some relation to something related something similar there but not the same not the same
k yeah for me the difference is that i don't sense that i'm really ever losing consciousness here
n it's more registering like conceptually registering it
k yes
n i just ah can a have to snap myself out of that one too um after the 8th it's exhilarating
[1st PL]
n hard to think it just becomes very just then it became very exhilarating and full bodied that pressure at the third eye
k it feels like there is a bottleneck of energy and the energy moves thru it to get above it it's kind of like pushing yourself up thru of one of those attic access holes you lever yourself up with your arms and suddenly you're up inthe attic instead of down below that ceiling and now from this new vantage point you're much freer
n yeah i used the analogy once i think in my notes from the 8th it feels like you're in the car and all the windows shut and then suddenly you open the sunroof and you put your head out and the wind is hitting your face
k how nice yes you get up, you stick your head and your torso up thru the sunroof and then you're out in the open
n it feels like you just come out and the sun is shining down on you, just came out of the dark
k and you wonder why you didn't notice you were so oppressed before when you were below this threshold
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n the vibrations are extremely subtle and blissful very subtle bliss, nothing like 3rd
or 4th
[2nd PL]
gotta snap myself out of that one too from now on the whole focus shifts very quickly up to the crown i actually don't feel the pressure at the 3rd eye i feel a slight pressure at the crown the whole focus shifts up to the shoulders upwards and it just feels so relaxing and calm and not as exhilarating as the previous one vibrations are generally felt at the top of the head and the focus is the head, the crown and the head more the crown than anything
k yes it's sounds it feels as though the top of my head at the crown chakra has opened up so that it's just there's uh free flow now between the in between what's in my head and outside is just a big open space
n and i feel like it's uh it's kind of it's like when you've got a hose and that the water's spurting out from the hose kinda like in a outward fashion that's what it feels like at the crown k yes
n there's energy just whoosh going out
k like a sprinkler at the end of the hose
n and actually sometimes actually right now i feel a physical movement of my head as it goes in a clockwise direction there's a slight movement i don't know if i'm physically movement or a sensation but it feels like it's coming from the crown
k it feels very very light and clear and open
less embodied than the previous jhana
n and uh yeah definitely it's almost like formless jhana
k almost yes more like a super light body jhana super open
n the space the bliss the subtleness is so subtle
k i feel my eyes locked into position rolled up into my head and now here again there's a kind of mudra where the eyes are looking at the crown chakra whereas before the eyes were looking at the brow chakra
n oh i sense that too
k i think that if i don't know what i look like right now but i suspect that rolling my eyes up and showing the whites of my eyes
n theres a slight tension in my eyes now that i focus quite a lot of tension not a lot but obvious teneion
k i feel that i'm breathing very freely
n whoa i've never focused on the breath in this way
it has a different quality to it than normal breathing
k yeah so light
n yeah
i've just shifted down back into the previous jhana
[3rd PL]
k let's keep going up let's go up to the next jhana the 3rd pureland jhana we're going to let the focus come back to the 3rd eye but this time there's we're going back into the body it's more embodied than the 2nd so i can feel very subtle vibration twitching in my hip
n oh yeah
k and there is a sense of kinda solidity and like a sense that there is a circuit being completed from the level of the 3rd eye so everything above the 3rd eye is just open but from the 3rd eye down it's like kinda like an alex grey painting with all of the circulating patterns and i've completed the circuit so here i am you can imagine one of those buddhas with rubies stuck in his 3rd eye you can feel the whole body
n it feels so centered, not centered, cemented in my sitting position k yes that's it
n and i really sense like a connection from the 3rd eye right down to the bottom of uh my buttocks where i'm sitting i feel very grounded
k yes so we've got the whole seamless unit of the body and the energy body grounded to the seat quite stable
n ah it is
i think i could sit like this all day
k yes
i can feel uh very subtle kind of twitching or arythmic pulsing in my in my head the body is fully online so this is a very embodied state
n i feel very very connected to just sitting here feel like uh a big trunk of the tree and there a sense of like a with the crown the hose there's that feeling at the 3rd eye
k yes yeah it's very 3rd eye focus
n i'm starting to get a little feels like physical movements of my head but from the 3rd eye like it's turning in a clockwise direction
[4th PL]
k let's go on to the 4th pureland jhana where we feel the we put the attention again at the crown chakra but this time
*** k where we put the attention again at the crown chakra but this time as it goes up there it feels embodied still and it feels like now theres a circuit that's completed from the level of the crown chakra so now that part between the 3rd eye and the crown chakra has also become included
n i just got a massive uh flash of blue
k so now i can breath freely again because the crown chakra is back on line
n oh yeah like the respiration must influence somewhat in the previous one
k yes it was somewhat inhibited by the bottlenecking of energy at the 3rd eye now we're opened it all up completely integrative
n i've never actually focused on this never actually experienced this but the breath is bliss
k yes
n i'm getting images of this is heavenly the breathing just the breath the touch of the breath it feels i don't know i've ever felt this it's divine i feel a connection from from where i'm sitting to the sky almost, in that direction
k yes we have the complete circuit the complete connection now with the body and the universe are all integrated and hooked up
n i feel like i'm between two things whereas previously i felt i was on top of something sitting grounded and now i feel like the trunk connected to the sky
[5th PL]
k from here if we go to the 5th pureland jhana we find that there is just the sense of consciousness the eyes move up a little bit higher and there's this turning the attention back to where consciousness itself but in a much more subtle and pure way than the witness for example
n oh yeah
k just pure knowing, bright, clear, knowing no object there's not even an object of the knower taking itself as object there's just knowing
n yeah
k little bit of a visual of brightness
n i just get the image of the previous one being being like like this hole going thru the body connecting you connecting the bottom to the top but now this hole kind of just disappeared or expanded out and now the whole thing is the hole doesn't make sense i don't know how to describe this it's like the witness but floaty a floating witness
k and the more it the more i let this consciousness be the purer it gets
n oh i feel i think a fruition i'm not sure is a kind of just when you said that it kind of expanded somewhat and kind of evaporated felt like similar to a fruition oh it's feeling similar to 3rd gear i'm snapping myself out of this but
k now notice that 3rd gear is not this because we're still in a compound state we're still noticing this
n there's a knowing there
k yes there's a compound phenomenon here now we can notice we can recognize 3rd gear from this perspective and it looks just exactly like it always does the clear light always looks the same from any perspective it's just completely pristine stainless unstainable
n it's different
k now i feel the tug to begin descending the arc a little bit of regret
n yeah
k and a little bit of the already the sense of the toothpaste being forced back in the tube just a little bit a sense of resignation alright and yet also a sense of relief because i realize for a moment i was grasping to try and remain up high like that so i now i just let myself come back down
n i'm feeling a bit of craving to stay
k sure so just acknowledge that and then realize that it's actually going to be relief to go back to the 4th pureland jhana because you can let go whatever subtle sense of craving there was and then back to this state where the crown chakra is there's a circuit completed from the point of view of the crown chakra
n i'm back in the 4th pure 4th one
k yes again noticing the exquisite quality of the breath
n that's nice a little like silk
k yes
n i'm in the 3rd or the 2nd and now just feel very grounded very stable
k have you shifted from the 4th pureland jhana
n yeah i'm back in the 2nd now
k the 3rd or the 2nd
n the 2nd pure abode oh no what am i
k the 3rd pure abode
n the one after the one feels like you are a trunk
k that's the third so now we've got the circuit being completed from the point of the brow chakra feels like a trunk firmly rooted and again a sense of relief as i feel very thoroughly embodied i'm not having to strain to stay up higher than what it wants to be and just letting it come down
n extremely confident feeling |