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Jhana: The Spice Your Meditation Has Been Missing

Meditation teacher and political columnist Jay Michaelson explains how jhana meditation is a transformative and vital part of the eightfold path.

By Dr. Jay Michaelson

Jan 21, 2022

Sutta Study: Factors of Concentration

The Samadhanga Sutta explains how insight arises from developing jhana, the Buddha’s concentration.

By Peter Doobinin

Dec 07, 2018

Trike Daily Meditation & Practice

Entering the Jhanas: Focus Comes First

A practice to develop the steady mind necessary for attaining wisdom

By Leigh Brasington

Mar 25, 2018

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Meditation’s Secret Ingredient

We practice “right concentration” not to experience blissful states but to help us entertain uncertainty.

By Mark Epstein

Spring 2018

The Jhanas: Perfect States of Concentration

At the heart of the Buddha’s teaching there are doctrines and strategies that dharma students must learn, and internalize, in order to understand his map to liberation. But few strategies are as central to the Buddhist path, and as little known to Westerners, as those called the jhanas. Jhana is the Pali word for mental […]

By Mary Talbot

Winter 2004

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right concentration

Trike Daily Meditation & Practice

Jhana: The Spice Your Meditation Has Been Missing

Trike Daily Teachings

Sutta Study: Factors of Concentration

Trike Daily Meditation & Practice

Entering the Jhanas: Focus Comes First

MagazineMeditation & Practice

Meditation’s Secret Ingredient

MagazineTeachings

The Jhanas: Perfect States of Concentration