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Right Concentration A Practical Guide to the Jhanas

Leigh Brasington

A practical guidebook for meditators interested in achieving the states of bliss and deep focus associated with the Buddhist jhānas One of the elements of the Eightfold Path is Right Concentration: the one-pointedness of mind that, together with ethics, livelihood, meditation, and more, leads to th...

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10% Happier with Dan Harris

The book was described as incredibly clear and compelling, explaining what the Jhanas were, which the host had not understood before reading it.

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You wrote a great book that I just finished reading called Right Concentration which explains, I'd heard of the jannas for years. I didn't actually know what they were until I read your book. Incredib...

— Episode: Leigh Brasington

Episode: Leigh Brasington

The book was described as incredibly clear and compelling, explaining what the Jhanas were, which the host had not understood before reading it.

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You wrote a great book that I just finished reading called Right Concentration which explains, I'd heard of the jannas for years. I didn't actually know what they were until I read your book. Incredibly clear and compelling.

Without ever ever being boring. Okay. So you sit down on the cushion. What do you do?

Episode: Leigh Brasington

The speaker recently finished reading this book and found it incredibly clear and compelling for explaining the jhanas, which they hadn't understood before reading it.

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You wrote a great book that I just finished reading called Right Concentration which explains, I'd heard of the jannas for years. I didn't actually know what they were until I read your book. Incredibly clear and compelling.

All right. So the first thing you need to do is generate a basic level of concentration. In the later literature it's called access concentration.

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