How Deep Should Buddhist Meditation Get? The Question of Jhana

There has been a recent disagreement over how deep meditative concentration practice should go, and over how deep the early Buddhist texts claim it was. We will look at that disagreement and help illuminate it by looking at some representative texts from the early tradition.

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✅ Videos recommended:
Right Concentration (on jhānas) — https://youtu.be/GWcOb1y0xGk
Right Concentration Extras (on formless attainments) -- https://youtu.be/DhVgoMouLy8

✅ Suttas mentioned:
https://suttacentral.net/mn122/en/sujato
https://suttacentral.net/mn36/en/sujato
https://suttacentral.net/an3.63/en/sujato
https://suttacentral.net/mn111/en/sujato
https://suttacentral.net/ud3.3/en/anandajoti
https://suttacentral.net/mn106/en/sujato
https://suttacentral.net/sn36.11/en/sujato
https://suttacentral.net/an10.72/en/sujato
https://suttacentral.net/mn128/en/sujato

✅ Books:
Bhikkhu Bodhi (trans.), The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha -- https://amzn.to/3oDv6y8

Anālayo, The Dawn of Abhidharma (Hamburg U. Press, 2014). https://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/pdf/5-personen/analayo/dawn-abhidharma.pdf

✅ Discussions:
Leigh Brasington, “Interpretations of the Jhānas” http://www.leighb.com/jhanantp.htm

Bodhipaksa https://www.wildmind.org/blogs/on-practice/the-buddhas-radical-path-of-jhana

https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/an-3-64-walking-while-in-jhanas/3368

https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/sutta-and-visuddhimagga-jhanas/3317

https://bswa.org/forum/forum/discussion/ask-a-monastic/29661-deep-jhanas-vs-light-jhanas

✅ Bhikkhu Sujato’s take on sutta-style vs. Visuddhimagga-style jhāna: https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/sutta-and-visuddhimagga-jhanas/3317/20

✅ Bhikkhu Brahmali’s take on jhāna in walking meditation: https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/suttas-related-to-walking-meditation/17601/12

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