Dhyana in Buddhism
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Oct 28, 2026
Brigid LowryGUEST
I give it my best shot.
Brigid LowryGUEST
But I wouldn't say that I'm ever in this lifetime or maybe the next going to get into the Jhana states.
Brigid LowryGUEST
I've never had, you know, when they go...
SandraHOST
And you will find this.
Mark MillerGUEST
I'm the PI on a couple of big projects.
Mark MillerGUEST
One's called Advanced Neuroscience for Advanced Meditation States, where we're looking particularly at jhana.
Mark MillerGUEST
So we have lay practitioners and deep lay practitioners and also monastic practitioners throughout Southeast Asia and EEGs looking at some of the jhanas and what we see going on under the hood.
Mark MillerGUEST
Pretty amazing what you can do with science.
Mark MillerGUEST
And we've just recently won a big COFO.
Kamala MastersGUEST
and used to talk a lot to us about that we need to pay attention to each area of these three in order to live a life in the Dharma in a very embodied and integrated way.
Kamala MastersGUEST
So it's not just sitting in silence in meditation and doing the practices, the Brahma-Vihara practices, the Jhana practices, the wisdom practices that we do.
Kamala MastersGUEST
but it's also things that we do in our everyday life.
Kamala MastersGUEST
So I want to lay that out for you first before I bring into light that second, what is called the pillar of the Dharma, the second pillar of the Dharma called Sila, living in harmony with all of life, basically.
Domyo BurkHOST
And then, I don't know, I guess, I don't know if Inka comes with the silk or not, but it's just another transmission, essentially.
WesleyUNKNOWN
I wonder if it has something, if it's similar to the Theravada, Dhyana levels, the stream enterers.
WesleyUNKNOWN
I don't know much about that either.
Domyo BurkHOST
I don't know.
YanaMODERATOR
It's about jhanas.
YanaMODERATOR
It was quite a hot discussion in the chat.
YanaMODERATOR
Jhanas are very important through the whole canon, and in Majjhima Nikaya they are popping up probably in every third sutta, or maybe often, more often.
YanaMODERATOR
um so the question was uh can we um derive that there is no way of reaching enlightenment or just even properly progressing on the path without uh janik experiences
Ajahn NisabhoGUEST
great question there's some debate on if you need jana to achieve enlightenment I'd say there's really good support that you need a deep state of, some deep states of concentration.
Allison TaitHOST
So I find his translation a little bit sus, but I keep it because out of reverence for Sojin Roshi.
Allison TaitHOST
So can you even tell that this is the same poem? A master of the Buddhist canon as well as the teaching of the Jhana school may be likened unto the blazing sun sitting high in his meridian tower.
Allison TaitHOST
Such a man would teach nothing but the Dharma for realizing the essence of mind, and his object in coming to this world would be to vanquish the heretical sex.
Allison TaitHOST
We can hardly classify the Dharmas into sudden and gradual, but some men will attain enlightenment much quicker than others.
speaker_0HOST
How would we moisten or soften that dryness? Some tips for that.
Joseph GoldsteinGUEST
First, what it refers to is, for those of you who are familiar with the suttas, you know that in very many discourses, the Buddha talks about the development of jhana, you know, the deep states of concentration.
Joseph GoldsteinGUEST
and absorption, and using that then as the basis for insight, for investigation.
Joseph GoldsteinGUEST
But in the suttas, there is also what is called the path of dry insight, which means developing insight without jhana.
Joseph GoldsteinGUEST
And the kind of concentration that's developed in this path of dry insight is called momentary concentration.
Joseph GoldsteinGUEST
which means the mind's concentrated and can get quite concentrated, but in a moment-to-moment way where it's seeing the impermanence all along the way.
Joseph GoldsteinGUEST
In jhana practice, that leads to an absorption and in that practice, in that kind of concentration, one is not actually seeing impermanence.
Joseph GoldsteinGUEST
because the whole path of that kind of concentration is one pointedness on a single object and then becoming absorbed in that concentration, in that one pointedness.
Liam McClintockGUEST
And he started hosting a lot of 10 day retreats and really was, was like, this is a practice where in 10 days you can experience what the Buddha was talking about.
Liam McClintockGUEST
And, um, you can experience these very blissful States called Jhana, which is not a state of deep concentration.
Liam McClintockGUEST
It's a a state of increasing awareness and relaxation and peace.
Liam McClintockGUEST
And it's accessible in a few days.
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Liam McClintockGUEST
equanimous states of mind where your awareness is very stable but even it's let go of even the joy and the happiness that has initially collected the mind so so yeah these are stages of awareness letting go and they're also traditionally the the path to awakening in the buddhist framework of enlightenment these are kind of the gateway to nirvana or nibbana which is like a complete letting go
Jonathan RobinsonHOST
And that leads us to the fourth R, which is remain.
Jonathan RobinsonHOST
And I can get into certain Jhana states when meditating, but then life hits.
Jonathan RobinsonHOST
Yeah.
Andrés Gómez EmilssonGUEST
To some extent, the retreat that we ran was more of a proof of concept for a methodology than really trying to arrive at a very defensible view on these correlations.
Andrés Gómez EmilssonGUEST
For the formless jhanas, unfortunately, several of the participants in the 5-MeO-DMT retreat couldn't make it to the Jhana retreat, including several of the advanced meditators.
Andrés Gómez EmilssonGUEST
So we kind of missed on some very useful data that we could have had about comparing the formless Jhanas to high-dose 5-MeO-DMT.
Andrés Gómez EmilssonGUEST
However, we have a bunch of interviews as well as micro-phenomenological accounts and drawings and discussions.
Andrés Gómez EmilssonGUEST
And it came up quite a lot that the advanced meditators actually said, yeah, in high doses of 5-MeO-DMT, they entered into formless jhanas involuntarily.
Domyo BurkHOST
And then, I don't know, I guess, I don't know if Inca comes with the silk or not, but it's just another transmission, essentially.
WesleyUNKNOWN
I wonder if it has something, if it's similar to the Theravada, Dhyana levels, the stream enterers.
WesleyUNKNOWN
I don't know much about that either.
Domyo BurkHOST
I don't know.
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