Meditative Absorption - Jhāna Sutta June 18 2019

If you find benefit from this talk please consider a donation: https://becoming-buddha.com/support-john-and-becoming-buddha-com/

 

This is a recording of our Tuesday evening Dhamma class from Cross River Meditation Center in Frenchtown, New Jersey on June 18,  2019. The stream begins every Tuesday at 7:15 PM Eastern US time.

 

My live talks and classes can be joined live through your web browser here: https://zoom.us/j/9083919079

 

or through your Android device here: Zoom Android App

 

or through your IOS device here: Zoom IOS App

 

New videos will be posted here within a few hours of the end of my talk. If you are subscribed tony Youtube channel, you will receive notifications when new videos are posted.

 

My Tuesday evening Dhamma talk and our sangha discussion is on the Jhana Sutta. Jhana means meditative absorption. The Buddha teaches, in a general way,  four levels of meditative absorption, or deepening concentration.

 

“This follower of the Noble Eightfold Path, from fully developing the four levels of Jhana, knows an exquisite peace. Fabrications ended, grasping too. Dispassion and unbinding established....”  (Jhana Sutta)

 

A related article is here:  https://becoming-buddha.com/jhana-sutta-meditative-absorption-mind-and-body-united/

 

Each Tuesday class will have a twenty-minute Shamatha-Vipassana meditation followed by my Dhamma talk and Sangha discussion and conclude with Metta intentional meditation.

 

An audio-only version of this video is available at my podcast archive: https://becoming-buddha.com/becoming-buddha-podcast/

 

A video of our classes is available here: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-stream-videos/

 

Here is the archive for all of my Dhamma articles and talks: https://becoming-buddha.com/dhamma-articles-and-talks-archive/

 

Thank You. Peace.