Meditation practices

A Jhana rabbit hole. Someone on X/Twitter introduced me to a meditation retreat company called Jhourneys that focuses on helping people get into Jhana states. Apparently there are different stages of Jhana. People describe them as states of euphoria, bliss, joy, and contentment that stay with you and some have shared that they have more capacity to be with the harder more challenging aspects of everyday life.

Any one have any experience with Jhanas?

Last night I listened a podcast featuring a guest who has been experiencing these states since the early 80s. (https://jhourney.transistor.fm/episodes/being-happier-than-you-ever-realized-for-no-apparent-reason-leigh-brasington) The energetic transmission was profound.

I’m really curious to learn more.

Xuramitra PPARK•...

as a psycho-tech the defining of jhana as focusing on pleasure is a good intro to getting into it. But potentially very limiting to what’s possible. But, classically, in Buddhist text, it’s defined as the mind’s temporary absence of the five hindrances of craving for sensual...

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Metatation - rant - is it

Is Metatation a thing? I’ve been using it as a mantra during meditation. Somehow the metatation mantra helps me calm down all the meta’ing always seem to be do’ing. Metatation has made my mediation practice more fun....

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Awareness of Awareness rambling thoughts. What keeps me up at night or what entertains me when other reasons (hormones, sugar, light/sound, etc.) keep me up at night is thinking bout awareness and what is aware of the thinking. This loop seems to never bore me and although i fear it’s some kind of loop that keeps me stuck. Live in thoughts like i don’t know anything for sure except for that. The loops are a life constant and also part of the fun of living. Is this a bypassing. Is this a distraction from something deeper.

Aware i’m thinking and typing now. What is noticing this. Sometimes the answer is just my mind is noticing and there isn’t much awareness of the entire view of this happening from a spot on the wall in this room, or from above looking at the roof of my office.

Is this even followable? The rambling thoughts?

What lately has been getting me to the wider awareness outside of it’s all in the mind is time. Have I ever typed before? Had thoughts before and been aware of the thoughts before? this awareness of this self over time feels much wider and less I like.

This is what i’ve been thinking bout in the middle of the night when I can’t sleep. Does it keep me up? Or is this so much more relaxing and fun then thinking bout bills and the to do lists ahead or the incompletely to do lists behind?

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I think you’re followable and I think everything is healthy. Do you think there’s some next stage or practice you should have gotten to by now? Ever since Relateful Camp and Jordan’s class on non-dual relating I’ve been taking walks and meditating and the non-dual stuff seems...