33.2.19.1 Wisdom and Knowledge Series, post #33. Buddhism, post #20.1: CONTINUATION OF Dhamma Wheel message board discussion: extreme bliss feeling without body awareness

Wisdom and Knowledge Series, post #33. Buddhism, post #20.1 (33.2.19.1):

Re: extreme bliss feeling without body awareness

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Post by confusedlayman » Sun Jun 23, 2019 2:25 am

SarathW wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 23, 2019 2:08 am

This would correspond to the luminous level of concentration described in the standard simile for the fourth jhana: "And furthermore, with the abandoning of pleasure & pain — as with the earlier disappearance of elation & distress — he enters & remains in the fourth jhana: purity of equanimity & mindfulness, neither-pleasure-nor-pain. He sits, permeating the body with a pure, bright awareness. Just as if a man were sitting covered from head to foot with a white cloth so that there would be no part of his body to which the white cloth did not extend; even so, the monk sits, permeating the body with a pure, bright awareness. There is nothing of his entire body unpervaded by pure, bright awareness." From this state it is possible to develop the discernment that not only cuts away existing defilements but also uproots any potential for them to ever arise again. Only in the stages of Awakening that follow on those acts of discernment would "consciousness without feature" be realized.

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Hi, But i experience intense (non human) bliss feeling but in your comment it says neither pleasure nor pain. in this experience i experience 100% pleasure feeling and 0% pain as no physical body awareness and no angry emotions.

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