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“Bhikkhus, just as the river Ganges slants, slopes, and inclines towards the east, similarly, a bhikkhu, who develops and cultivates the four jhāna s slants, slopes, and inclines towards Nibbana.”
[SN V.308]
“There is no jhāna for the one without liberating wisdom,
no liberating wisdom for the one without jhāna ;
the one who has jhāna and liberating wisdom
he indeed is in the presence of nibbana.”
[Dhammapada v.372]
I would like to offer some reflections about how to read meditative maps, not only the meditative map of the four jhānas I offer in my book (and a summary in the previous post), but also other maps of this kind that exist in abundance in classical Buddhist literature.
Early Buddhist Meditation: The Four Jhanas as the Actualization of Insight
This book offers a fresh look at the four jhànas and their liberative role in the Buddhist path to awakening, and provides a novel map of the progress of meditation according to the early Buddhist texts.
Published by Routledge (Critical Studies in Buddhism)
The Sayings of the Buddha
An annotated Hebrew translation of collection of Suttas from the original Pali into Hebrew
Published by Tel Aviv University Press
