Jhana Sources

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Jhana Sources

 

Hello my good friends who follow a contemplative life, I thought you might

like to have some resources for the meditative absorption states. Within a

Southern (Nikayan) Buddhist context the meditative absorptions are known as

Jhana, this however does not mean that these subjective states are any

different from what Christian mystics, like Teresa of Avila, called the

religious ecstasies. In fact one will find every contemplative tradition

has some context for these states.

 

The current issue of Tricycle (Winter 2004) has a special section titled

'The Jhanas: Perfecting States of Concentration'.

 

Articles and contents are:

 

Mary Talbot: WHAT ARE THE JHANAS?

Bhante Henepola Gunaratana: THE PATH OF SERENITY AND INSIGHT

Leigh Brasington: A MIND PURE, CONCENTRATED, AND BRIGHT

Christina Feldman: OPENING THE GATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Thanissaro Bhikkhu: SEEING FOR YOURSELF

Ajaan Lee Dhammadharo: ABSORBED IN THE BREATH

plus selection from the Pali Canon

 

http://www.tricycle.com/new.php?p=articles & id=280

 

 

& & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & &

other S O U R C E S for J H A N A

 

GREAT WESTERN VEHICLE

In an effort to provide support for those seeking to cultivate the jhanas

the Great Western Vehicle offers two services to the jhana bound

contemplative. They provide an archive of articles on the subject of jhana.

The Jhana archive is at this URL:

http://www.geocities.com/jhanananda/jhanaarticles.htm

 

JHANA SUPPORT GROUP

A peer level support group for supporting people who have. or think they are

experiencing the symptoms or conditions of ecstatic absorption (jhana).

Jhanas/

 

BHAVANA SOCIETY

Maháthera Henepola Gunaratana

http://www.bhavanasociety.org/

Articles on Jhana by Maháthera Henepola Gunaratana

http://www.palikanon.com/english/the_jhanas/jhanas00.htm

 

LEIGH BRASINGTON's Web site:

http://home.attbi.com/~leighb/

 

METTA FOREST MONASTERY (WAT METTAVANARAM)

Thanissarro Bhikku (Tan Geoffrey)

http://here-and-now.org/watmetta.html

 

The Jhanas By Ajahn Brahmavamso

http://www.geocities.com/jhanananda/thejhanas.pdf

 

 

May you become enlightened in this very life-time,

 

Sotapanna Jhanananda (Jeffrey S, Brooks)

http://www.geocities.com/jhanananda/