[Speareerfug]

hi Deshy

"spun my mind" means i did alot of research (Nanananda, etc) but in the end just came to my own opinion

the highest arupa jhana would probably be the cessation of perception & feeling

just guessing, my opinion is it certainly would lead to Nibbana for one that has been instructed about Nibbana

being instructed in Nibbana means one understands the goal is to not cling to anything

my opinion is, in the cessation of perception & feeling, all sense of 'existence' (bhava) or 'thingness' would end

thus, with such familiarity with non-existence, the mind would easily understand any sense of existence is mere illusion

Nibbana is the non-clinging to both non-existence & existence/thingness

kind regards



Furthermore, with the complete transcending of the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception, Sariputta entered & remained in the cessation of feeling & perception. Seeing with discernment, his fermentations were totally ended [Nibbana].

MN 111