The Jhanas Explained: A Complete Map
The jhanas are one of the most important and least understood areas of Buddhist practice. These states arise as you go deeper into the nature of consciousness itself.
ABOUT.
In 2018, reading a single sentence by Ramana Maharshi — “Liberation (moksha) is to know you were never born” — ten years of searching collapsed into a single moment. The continuity of personhood was suspended and finally the meaning of the word “awakening” was understood. I engaged in many forms of meditation, yoga and spiritual practice within a variety of traditions. Most of my training and study was within the Dhammakaya tradition of Theravada Buddhism, Dzogchen, Vedanta and Zen. My work is not representative of any one particular lineage, practice or philosophy. With further awakening the subjective realities which comprised the entirety of my existence were rendered unreal and illusory. I emerged from the dream of my life, the life of a dharma practitioner. A natural state apart from beliefs, free from a true sense of change, process or progress became manifest. Reality revealed itself as entirely Pathless, a Presence which extends everywhere and exists as everything. I sought home for 15 years in all those teachers and temples. They could not give me myself.