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[Roger This @RogerThisdell]

Visualisations of the Jhanas

The Jhanas are a series of (8) highly concentrated altered states, most notably induced through advanced meditation practice and are a source of profound delight and insight.

The Jhanas are commonly listed as:
1. Rapture - characterised by pīti (described as pleasurable body sensations)
2. Extreme Happiness - characterised by sukha (emotional joy)
3. Deep Peacefulness
4. Utter Equanimity
5. Boundless Space
6. Boundless Consciousness
7. Nothingness
8. Neither Perception Nor Non-perception

If you’re wanting to deepen your access into Jhana, I’m currently doing a series of guided meditations, where we’re combining Fire Kasina practice to bolster Jhana, with surprising effects! 🕯️👀 This is available on my Patreon /rogerthis, and where you can join my weekly, online, meditation group. (check bio link)

Tremendous gratitude to my brother, Bill Thisdell, for helping me realise these animations.🙏 We worked very closely and diligently together to create these visual portrayals of the Jhana states, and it’s much due to his amazing skills - he’s the real artist behind the scenes!

[Nick @nickcammarata]

It can be useful to think of consciousness as a force. When you have enough equanimity it breaks dependent origination and percepts stop arising until your mind blinks out like general anesthesia

In some ways people have only experienced anything when they want something

[Aleph @_Aleph__]

Our way of practice, is by looking a things… and making them clear.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

Do you really "invent" your own ideas, or do you merely stumble upon them in the preexisting latent space of ideas? Since others may have had the same ideas in the past, or will in the future, are these ideas truly your original creations?

[Nick @nickcammarata]

I think people here underestimate how much the universe is yours to do what you want with it. Most people seeing this are in the most influential 50m agents in the known universe and could get to the top 500k if you really gave it your all. The only rules are the laws of physics

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

Intelligence is the ability to turn chaos into complexity

[Aleph @_Aleph__]

@CirrusNFT @threadreaderapp unroll

[Ilya Sutskever @ilyasut]

it may be that today's large neural networks are slightly conscious

[Captain Pleasure, Andrés Gómez Emilsson @algekalipso]

I like to share selfies every once in a while.

#OpenIndividualism