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    Four Jhānas

    Insight Meditation South Bay


    www.imsb.org

    Four Jhānas
    Key points
    • The four jhānas are a defining feature of Right Concentration in the Buddhist Tradition.
    • Jhānas are states of deep meditative absorption in which attention is unified with a fixed meditation
    object, the mind is secluded from sensory engagements, and all unwholesome states have been
    abandoned.
    • Each level of absorption is characterized by a particular cluster of intensifying factors.
    • Besides the four jhānas, there are two other sets of states commonly related to the four jhānas:
    1. Access to Jhāna
    • At the threshold to jhāna the five hindrances have been abandoned and the five jhāna factors
    have arisen.
    • Access to jhāna and first jhāna share the same five basic factors, but are more refined and stable
    in absorption.
    • A meditator in access to jhāna may maintain awareness of changing sensory objects.
    2. Four immaterial jhānas are commonly listed after the four jhānas
    1. The base of infinite space
    2. The base of infinite consciousness
    3. The base of nothingness
    4. The base of neither-perception-nor-non-perception

    More details and practical instructions are included in Focused And Fearless: A Meditator's Guide to
    States of Deep Joy, Calm, And Clarity, by Shaila Catherine, published by Wisdom Publications, 2008.

    Jhānas Factors abandoned Factors acquired or Notes


    intensified
    The first jhāna Five hindrances: Five Jhāna factors: • Five hindrances are opposed to the five
    1. Sloth and torpor 1. Applied thought jhāna factors.
    2. Doubt 2. Sustained thought • Characterized by rapture and happiness
    3. Ill will / aversion 3. Rapture born of seclusion
    4. Restlessness 4. Happiness • Commentarial teachings and just a few
    5. Greed / sensual 5. One-pointedness of suttas specifically list one-pointedness
    desire the mind as a feature of first jhāna; many suttas
    omit explicit reference to the factor one-
    pointedness.

    The second 1. Applied thought 1. Rapture • Disappearance of applied and sustained


    jhāna 2. Sustained thought 2. Happiness thought
    3. One-pointedness of • Characterized by delight and happiness
    the mind born of concentration
    The third jhāna Rapture 1. Subtle happiness • Rapture fades, revealing a quiet, subtle,
    2. One-pointedness of and pervasive happiness.
    the mind • Characterized by the subtle enjoyment
    of a mind that is mindful and
    equanimous
    The fourth jhāna Happiness 1. One-pointedness of • Happiness is replaced by equanimity.
    the mind The mind is profoundly stable, still, and
    2. Equanimity equanimous.
    • Mindfulness is purified by equanimity.

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