Hi everyone,
I hope I might get you to help me come up with some structure to my practice. I am finally doing what i've been talking about doing for ages and stopping the U Ba Khin practice for good. There are lots of reasons for this, but I won't bore your pants off with them
JhanaMy goal is to attain stream entry of course. And I want to take the Jhana route to this goal. I'm very much of the school of thought that the Buddha taught jhana, right concentration as a necessary component required for awakening and I would like to practice in that way. The problem is, I don't have a teacher, or set of specific teachings to follow (though I have collected much information in general on the subject). I realise I could trawl through the Majjhima Nikaya but that really isn't feasible. I would have no time left to practice

I do not want to follow the TWIM folks. I just can't figure out how they have arrived at such an interpretation of MN118, nice folks though they truly are. And I'm not certain if following MCTB (aggressively looking into the 3C's) will really fit with such practice.
Maybe it's enough to use the Satipatthana Sutta and Anapanasati sutta to try and really cover all 4 bases of mindfulness when in the 4th jhana?
One thing is for sure. I don't want to just "hope" im doing it right. If there were some school of budhism or teacher (maybe Thanissaro Bhikkhu, though Im not sure if he talks much about actual stream entry), where I could get some
direction that's be really good.
Just looking for some suggestions...
thanks!
Edited for clumsier than usual wordage..