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**leflyCode** · 04-20-2010, 11:42 PM

Nibbana is conditioned, so we need to cause those conditions to grow, per Right Effort. To this end we are called on to perform Right Mindfulness (sammasati) and Right Concentration (sammasamadhi).

This is important: the jhanas are conditioned, but 'conditioned' is not an invariably bad word in Buddhism, and the jhanas are always listed as an essential part of the Noble Eightfold Path. Anyone who would declare jhanas to be empty and thereby not pursue them is missing out on the fact that various jhanas are, per the Suttas, required attainments for once-returners, non-returners, and arahants.

04-20-2010, 11:42 PM	#5
leflyCode Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 357 Senior Member	Nibbana is conditioned, so we need to cause those conditions to grow, per Right Effort. To this end we are called on to perform Right Mindfulness (sammasati) and Right Concentration (sammasamadhi). This is important: the jhanas are conditioned, but 'conditioned' is not an invariably bad word in Buddhism, and the jhanas are always listed as an essential part of the Noble Eightfold Path. Anyone who would declare jhanas to be empty and thereby not pursue them is missing out on the fact that various jhanas are, per the Suttas, required attainments for once-returners, non-returners, and arahants.
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