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**neictscek** · 06-12-2010, 11:44 AM

I've had this book ' Mindfulness Bliss and Beyond ' for a while and I confess I still haven't read beyond the second chapter. I skimmed through some of the rest of the book and all its many descriptions of the jhanas, some of the details of which seem..well..unusual ...

...An example p.154 " A lay disciple once told me how completely by chance he had fallen into a deep jhana while meditating at home. His wife thought he had died and sent for an ambulance... etc etc" - sounded rather like my experience of a heavy morphine haze after returning to consciousness after an operation I once had.

I wondered also if he was subtly claiming a version of enlightenment himself to be quite honest.

06-12-2010, 11:44 AM	#20
neictscek Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 433 Senior Member	I've had this book ' Mindfulness Bliss and Beyond ' for a while and I confess I still haven't read beyond the second chapter. I skimmed through some of the rest of the book and all its many descriptions of the jhanas, some of the details of which seem..well..unusual ... ...An example p.154 " A lay disciple once told me how completely by chance he had fallen into a deep jhana while meditating at home. His wife thought he had died and sent for an ambulance... etc etc" - sounded rather like my experience of a heavy morphine haze after returning to consciousness after an operation I once had. I wondered also if he was subtly claiming a version of enlightenment himself to be quite honest.
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