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**Agedprepdoock** · 06-12-2010, 02:30 PM

all we need to attain Nibbana is a hefty dose of propofol or ketmine, or perhaps a bullet to the head. It's asinine.

Absolutely, spot on. It's for this very reason that many dry insight people choose to reject Jhana and refer to the practice as a 'deep state of concentration' rather than as an 'abiding'.

IMHO this is what Buddha had already tried under his previous teachers before he recalled the Jhana he had experienced as a child. He hit on something very different and began to teach it.

I have also read warnings in Tibetan and Hindu sources about blanking out in this 'switch-off' meditation and the example he cites is really like being under heavy morphine.

06-12-2010, 02:30 PM	#21
Agedprepdoock Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 426 Senior Member	all we need to attain Nibbana is a hefty dose of propofol or ketmine, or perhaps a bullet to the head. It's asinine. Absolutely, spot on. It's for this very reason that many dry insight people choose to reject Jhana and refer to the practice as a 'deep state of concentration' rather than as an 'abiding'. IMHO this is what Buddha had already tried under his previous teachers before he recalled the Jhana he had experienced as a child. He hit on something very different and began to teach it. I have also read warnings in Tibetan and Hindu sources about blanking out in this 'switch-off' meditation and the example he cites is really like being under heavy morphine.
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