Jhourney
From 0 meditation to 50 days of retreat in one year: what I wish I knew
What Is Jhana Meditation? How It Works and How People Learn
She even describes the same failure modes. Trying too hard. Grasping at the good states when they arise. Mistaking early signs of absorption for the real thing. These aren’t generic mystical warnings. They’re the specific ways people get stuck on the way to jhana, and she catalogs them like someone who made every mistake herself.
[on Jhana (mega thread) – if you have strong attention flashlight you can put it on something pleasurable and it than its entire world, its jhanna
On Jhana – it’s 10-100x better than sex, it solved need for happiness by surpluss
on getting to jhana
concentration’ is a mistranslation; ‘collectedness’ is a better word and you get collected via relaxation