Abhidhamma and this forum

[mikenz66]

@SarathW1

I personally, prefer Sutta Jahana as it is very simple to understand.

Yet there are long discussions, on this forum and elsewhere, about whether or not the suttas indicate that one can hear, and so on, while in jhana…

Contemporary definition of jhana

Nope. And if you look at how meditation teachers describe jhana, you won’t find two who are teaching the exact same thing (barring some sort of student-teacher arrangement, of course).

Hearing sounds in samādhi, jhāna

(more passages coming later, but I wanted to point out this line I noticed recently, most people probably gloss over it without realizing the implications) AN 5.209 chanting suttas is samādhi sara-kuttimpi ni-kāma-yamānassa (4) intonation-refining (for) one-desiring (that), samādhissa bhaṅgo hoti, (their) undistractable-lucidity breaks-up. This sut…