How to Attain Jhana? - Weaken 5 Hindrances! | Buddhist Dhamma Talk by Ajahn Dhammasiha | Dhammagiri
Channel: Dhamma Talks at Dhammagiri
Date: 2023-12-04

Ajahn Dhammasiha is asked: "What's the process to develop Jhāna?"

He explains that it's not so much a particular technique or method that will lead to the attainment of jhāna (full 'absorption' samādhi/'concentration' ), but that we have to gradually weaken the 5 hindrances (5 Nīvaraṇā):

1. Sensual Desire

2. Ill Will / Aversion

3. Laziness / Sleepiness / 'Sloth & Torpor'

4. Restlessness & Remorse

5. Doubt

If these 5 hindrances are very strong, whatever technique or method we're using in our formal meditation, we will not be able to unify the mind in jhāna/samādhi.

We have to work continuously, in daily live as well as in formal meditation sessions, to gradually file away and weaken these 5 hindrances. Once they are overcome, the mind will unify in jhāna/samādhi  quite naturally, because we experience gladness (pāmojja).

Experiencing gladness, we will feel rapture (pīti)

Feeling rapture, our physical body will be completey calm, relaxed and tranquil (passaddhi).

With tranquil body, we will experience bliss.
The blissful mind unifies in jhāna/samādhi.




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