Jhanas app in Google Play

[LeoCGOR]

Jhanas app in Google Play
Vladimir R. Updated on Apr 3, 2024

“The first app that helps you go from zero to hero in reaching jhana.”

Now I’ve seen everything. Sigh…

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwisvsfY1NSIAxXEOjQIHaZTIroQFnoECBAQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fjhana.app%2F&usg=AOvVaw3Ps4m9h9In03b4qyJHdyro&opi=89978449

How can you overcome the 5 Hinderances with an app?

[Snowbird]

To save you a click:

How is your app connected to the TMI, TWIM, and Right Concentration?

Our app is designed to help users develop and maintain good habits on their path to achieving Jhānas. While it is not directly connected to any of these three methodologies, it draws inspiration from them and incorporates some of their principles and techniques along with many others teachings (by Rob Burbea, Michael Taft, Shaila Catherine etc).

For example, the TMI (The Mind Illuminated) methodology focuses on developing stable attention and cultivating mindfulness, which are both essential for achieving Jhānas. Our app includes guided meditations and exercises that help users develop these skills and can be mapped to the first 6 stages of TMI. If your goal is to achieve samatha, TMI would be the best resource.

Similarly, the TWIM (Tranquil Wisdom Insight Meditation) methodology emphasizes cultivating feelings of loving-kindness and compassion, which can also be beneficial for achieving Jhānas. Our app includes meditations that focus on these qualities and encourage users to develop a more positive and compassionate mindset. That significantly improves development of Piti and loving-kindness meditation opens one of the fastest way to access jhana.

”Right Concentration” by Leigh Brasington is one of the best resources for developing and transitioning between different Jhanas.

Overall, while our simulator is not directly connected to any of these three methodologies, it draws inspiration from them and incorporates some of their key principles in order to help users achieve Jhānas.

The Mind Illuminated is a thing by the teacher Culadasa

Tranquil Wisdom Insight Meditation is a thing by Bhante Vimalaramsi

[Malunkyaputta]

Is the app interrupted by loud commercials?

[LeoCGOR]

I have not downloaded the app. It seemed so unlikely to me. It might embody a modern approach applied to wisdom. See the above detailed post by Snowbird.

[Pondera]

As per their website. Descriptions of jhanas 1 through 8

• 1st Jhana: Enjoying the focused awareness of body buzz that brings about a sense of bliss. Some people compare this state to an orgasm.
• 2nd Jhana: Experience the radiant warmth of joy and happiness as you finally receive the gift you’ve been yearning for all year, just like when you were a child.
• 3rd Jhana: Relaxing and feeling content. You are spending time with your family or closest friends. You might feel like you are under the influence of cannabis, but your mind is still alert and focused.
• 4th Jhana: Achieving imperturbable equanimity where nothing bothers you anymore.
• 5th Jhana: You may experience a loss of awareness of your body boundaries, and feel as though your awareness is expanding into boundless space. This can give the impression of being in a space, which may sometimes be visible to you.
• 6th Jhana: Experiencing pure recursive awareness feels as if your consciousness encompasses everything around you.
• 7th Jhana: Enjoying a deep rest in nothingness.
• 8th Jhana: Experiencing the dissolution of concepts or objects.

[Erika_ODonnell]

@Pondera

5th Jhana: You may experience a loss of awareness of your body boundaries, and feel as though your awareness is expanding into boundless space. This can give the impression of being in a space, which may sometimes be visible to you.

Just to map this to the way Ajahn Brahm teaches, AFAIK, this is the “nimitta” stage from where it’s possible to enter the first jhana.

There’s lots of weird and wonderful perceptions that are possible at this stage, it makes sense to me that people could mistake what happens here for immaterial attainments.

Edit: I think it is rational to be agnostic about various systems of jhana. However, for someone who is able to dwell in the jhanas:

“When you reflect upon these eight thoughts of a great person and gain at will … these four jhānas … then, while you dwell contentedly, your dwelling place at the foot of a tree will seem to you as a house with a peaked roof, plastered inside and out, draft-free, with bolts fastened and shutters closed, seems to a householder or a householder’s son; and it will serve for your delight, relief, and ease, and for entering upon nibbāna. (AN 8.30)

they should be able to basically to live in the forest, blissed out, content.

So it makes sense for all of us to evaluate our meditation practice and check if our meditation practice is enough to enable us to truly thrive with only the barest of necessities to sustain life.

[trusolo]

The quote was about what was stated on the app website. Please follow the forum rules and don’t discuss personal practice, meditation experiences, or advice related to them in public posts. Confine such conversations to Personal Messages (PMs).

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[LeoCGOR]

Copy that. I forgot my thread manners.