jhana meditation

Keeping the mind on track

If you're familiar with the way I teach meditation you'll know that for many years one of the key things…

December 14, 2020

From the burden of illusion to the joy of freedom

I'm going to say something about the arising of insight that I've never heard any teacher say before, yet which…

May 16, 2018

Finding meditation’s intrinsic rewards

The mind is pulled in two different directions in meditation. Peace, calm, and joy are the intrinsic rewards that meditation offers, and…

October 30, 2017

The body-wide wave of breathing

When I’m teaching a refresher course on meditation, I’ll often ask people first of all just to meditate for a…

October 4, 2017

Do less, notice more, accept distraction

The purpose of "Letting Go Into Joy" is to help you cultivate what’s called “jhana.” Jhana is a Pali word…

July 31, 2016

Learn to go deeper into stillness

Letting Go Into Joy: A Step-By-Step Guide to the Experience of Jhana (Aug 1–Sep 19) is a 50 day meditation…

July 30, 2016

The core skill of meditation is showing up

One of the biggest myths about meditation is that it involves experiencing blissful or "spiritual" states of mind. It doesn't.…

April 19, 2016

Self-consciousness versus self-awareness

In meditation we can slip into a flow state — that is, one where we're un-selfconsciously and happily absorbed in…

September 12, 2015

Letting Go Into Bliss: an exploration of “jhana”

Letting Go Into Bliss (Aug 12-Oct 30) is an exploration of "jhana" -- a joyful state of focused attention that…

July 13, 2015

The Buddha’s radical path of jhana

Jhāna — a progressive series of meditative states of absorption — is a strangely controversial topic in Buddhism. I say…

September 2, 2014