Preparation for a mature 1st Jhana (guided meditation 37min)
Added 2024-08-23 18:00:00 +0000 UTCA mature 1st Jhana is not about blasting your mind with fizzling fireworks of piti (which is unsustainable and more a symptom of repressed energy being released). Instead, we're going for a slower, subtler boil of gradual, appreciative bodily "pleasure born of seclusion" (to quote the suttas directly). This method I've found is a much more reliable and sustainable way of building up to 1st Jhana.
