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Dhyāna (Sanskrit) or Jhāna (Pali) means meditation in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. In Buddhism, it is a series of cultivated states of mind, which lead to "state of perfect equanimity and awareness (upekkhii-sati-piirisuddhl)."
Dhyana may have been the core practice of pre-sectarian Buddhism, but became appended with other forms of meditation throughout its development.
The time of the Buddha saw the rise of the śramaṇa movement, ascetic practitioners with a body of shared teachings and practices. The strict delineation of this movement into Jainism, Buddhism and brahmanical/Upanishadic traditions is a later development.
According to Bronkhorst, the practice of the four dhyanas may have been an original contribution by Gautama Buddha to the religious practices of ancient India in response to the ascetic practices of the Jains. According to Wynne, the attainment of the formless meditative absorption was incorporated from Brahmanical practices, These practices were paired to mindfulness and insight, and given a new interpretation. The stratification of particular samādhi experiences into the four jhānas seems to be a Buddhist innovation. It was then borrowed and presented in an incomplete form in the Mokṣadharma, a part of the Mahābhārata. Kalupahana argues that the Buddha "reverted to the meditational practices" he had learned from Ārāḍa Kālāma and Uddaka Rāmaputta.
Ajahn Brahmavamso Mahathera, known as Ajahn Brahm (born Peter Betts on 7 August 1951) is a British Theravada Buddhist monk. Currently Brahm is the Abbot of Bodhinyana Monastery, in Serpentine, Western Australia, the Spiritual Director of the Buddhist Society of Western Australia, Spiritual Adviser to the Buddhist Society of Victoria, Spiritual Adviser to the Buddhist Society of South Australia, Spiritual Patron of the Buddhist Fellowship in Singapore, Patron of the Brahm Centre in Singapore, and Spiritual Patron of the Bodhikusuma Centre in Sydney.
Betts was born in London. He came from a working-class background and went to Latymer Upper School. He won a scholarship to study theoretical physics at Cambridge University in the late 1960s. After graduating from Cambridge, he taught in high school for one year before traveling to Thailand to become a monk and train with the Ajahn Chah Bodhinyana Mahathera. Brahm was ordained in Bangkok at the age of twenty-three by the Abbot of Wat Saket. He subsequently spent nine years studying and training in the forest meditation tradition under Ajahn Chah.
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Genres: Mystery,"Dear Yuttadhammo, how much value do you put on the practice of jhana? Didn't the Buddha advocate jhana practice at least up to a point, and does it not have a use in deepening vipassana practice? All the best." Please submit questions to my YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/yuttadhammo and subscribe for updates here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=yuttadhammo
Ajahn Brahm is the spiritual director of the Buddhist Society of Western Australia. In this talk from a 9-day meditation retreat in 1997, Ajahn Brahm gives an introduction into attaining Jhāna--"absorption"--in your meditation practice. Video © 2012 Third Road Publishing
a Great Western Vehicle video on an Ecstatic Buddhist meditation method that produces ecstatic altered states of consciousness known in the earliest Buddhist literature as 'jhana' or 'samadhi.'
One of the talks about Jhana meditation. This was recorded toward the end of a eight week course taught by Shane Wilson a Buddhist minister. The talk and the course its self was given at the Arizona International Buddhist Meditation Center. Visit: www.meditationlearningcenter.com
Introduction and Overview. These videos go thoroughly and in-depth through teachings and practices of samadhi and jhana in the Pali texts, the Pali Suttas and the Visuddhimagga. Part 1 is a recording of session 1 on day 1, September 2013. The handout used in this video can be found at www.mettadharma.org.
Ayya Khema The First Jhanas; 5 Jhana Factors vs 5 Hindrances; Loving-Kindness Meditation (Immense Heart) Day 13 of Retreat at Holy Redeemer Oakland USA 1991 Original Talks here: http://ayyakhematalks.org/Holy_Redeemer_1991.html
Jhanas - Buddhist Meditative Absorptions in Modern Times.
In this excellent talk to a group of meditators Bhante explains what the true meaning of a Jhana is - a level of understanding-not absorption - And he discusses toward the end of the talk what the meditator will experience if they follow the Jhanas all the way through to Nibbana. He explains a different interpretation of the Satipatthana Sutta. He shows you how he re-discovered what the Buddha taught. He addresses also, "What is Craving?" Its an actual thing. There is a tension and tightness in the mind that arises - like flame from something on fire. When there is no craving there is Ni (No) bana (fire)! He explains how he set aside the commentaries like the Vissudhi Magga and went back to the original Suttas, as in the Majjhima Nikaya. He asks that you please, please add the missin...
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