
If I ever "demanded" anything, is that the Buddhist community as a collective use their common sense, intellect, police their teachers and require accountability, transparency, and ethical translation practices, rather than slavishly believe their charismatic cult leaders. In fact in this very thread, I cut off conversations with 2 people once I ascertained they had deranged ideas of 'logic'. I already corrected you once on that false accusation, asked you to show where I do that, and you reassert that charge again without proof. Nowhere did I demand "everyone" agree with me. You sound a lot like George Bush or Trump. Your demand that everyone should agree with you, and go out and correct everyone who disagrees with you, is completely unrealistic. You think their interpretations are incorrect, and they think that yours are incorrect. It's not as if noone has engaged with your, here or on Sutta Central.

Once one gets into samadhi, it is bodiless, it is bhavanga. Samadhi has less factors than Jhana, and not differentiated into 4 steps. It could have caused confusion trying to treat samadhi(absorption) as sutta Jhana. When I read description of Jhana from many dhamma talks, they all sound like Samadhi, not Jhana by sutta. Of samãdhi that are normally experienced with Jhãna since there is Try to get into Jhãna would be a waste of time.

Samãdhi gradually for a basis of calm and then using that basis ofĬalm to develop wisdom is the natural way. Great majority of people the straight forward method of developing

They will come naturallyĪs a product of ones own development in meditation. To develop these states so well and good. Who does not possess the natural ability to attain these states should In fact, unlike states of samãdhi that one normally experiences, the jhãnas areĮxtremely difficult to get into and maintain in any way. Ajahn Panna, and his teacher Ajahn Maha Boowa, differentiate Jhana with Samadhi.
