In 2025, Vern began meditation coaching online. Here are some stats (through February 28): General Meditation Students: 29 | Hours Taught: 176 Jhana Meditation Students: 88 | Hours Taught: 166 Jhana Meditation Video Training: 124 Can You Benefit from an Online Meditation Coaching Session? Sawatdee Krup! (Thai for hello…) Meditation Problems? Everyone begins their meditation … Read more
This is a transcript of a video by Bhante G. I did my best. I have another page about What Is Jhana. What Is Jhana? Transcript of Henepola Gunaratana Note – please keep in mind, the following is an attempt at transcribing his exact words. It was difficult, and he doesn’t’ so much explain what … Read more
I was looking through some of my links and found one to a guest post I did for Life Optimizer a while back on “happiness”. I wrote about the happiest – most joy-filled experience I’ve ever had (well – had them a lot of times). The phenomenal bliss around Jhana 1. I think you’ll find … Read more
There are some really amazing experiences that come from simply sitting in a spot on the floor and watching your breath. If you ever had any doubt before that your mind was very powerful, you won’t after you experience some of the things that happen when your consciousness is altered after the brain stops thinking … Read more
My questions and responses are bold and the answers by ChatGPT, an iteration of AI on the road to general artificial intelligence, on 29 Jan 2023 follow unbolded. Can you condense down the teachings of Vipassana to around 1000 words telling me how to reach the jhana levels? Vipassana, also known as Insight Meditation, is … Read more
This is part of my Meditation Journal where you can find dozens of more posts like this. I haven’t read many accounts of Jhana and how the Buddhists view Jhana. What I’ve read up until today seemed to be telling me that Jhana was necessary in order to reach enlightenment. While glancing through Buddhadassa Bhikku’s … Read more
This is part of my Meditation Journal with dozens of posts > I found this post on an old backup CD-ROM I have. I had posted to some meditation group about some of the odd experiences I was having while meditating. Pretty fun to read now. ******** Hi all. I’ve lurked here for quite a … Read more