🔹 Deep Jhana Immersion – Online Course
🧘♂️ Class 1 – Foundations of Deep Absorption (90 min)
Goals – Set up the environment, physical, mental, and emotional base for Deep Jhana meditation. Learn how to approach each meditation session.
6:00 – 6:15 Welcome
- Welcome & Introduction
- Course structure & goal overview
6:05 – 6:20 Definitions
- What is Deep Jhana – demystifying the term
- Why is Deep Jhana important? Why get it?
- Difference between access concentration and Jhana
- Why stillness and non-reactivity are more important than effort
6:20 – 6:25 Attitude
- Overall – meditation is the reward
- Grasping takes options away. No Perfect Concentration. No Jhana.
- Letting go is key
- No fear, anxiety, grasping, anxiety, berating yourself, no emotion about anything
6:25 – 6:45 Preparation
Everything we do to prepare for watching the tingling sensation in the nose requires simplifying and not adding anything to the meditation.
- 2 Hours before – progressive mind relaxation. Eating. Exercise. No inputs. Never mantras.
- Mindfulness is fine
- Environmental variables – temp., a/c, fans, light, sound, no group
- Physical body prep – jewelry, shoes, clothes, socks, glasses, flexing
- Mental prep
- Optimal sitting posture on a chair; hands
- Back, neck, eyes, tongue, breathing
- Self check – any issues to fix? All systems go?
- Sit so still that you’re not there
6:45 – 7:00 Breath and Tingle
- Breath awareness training – watch the breath; no control; where is it felt
- Breath focus: where in the nose is the sensation of the breath where it touches the nose/nostrils
- Forget word breath – focus on the tingle, the vibration in the nose hairs.
- Laser focus – arm exercise.
7:00 – 7:15 Watch Tingle
- 5 minutes – watch tingle
- Begin to notice continuity vs. breaks in attention
- Look at extending the continuity of focus longer and longer over your sessions
- Thoughts, feelings, sounds, pain, movement, all ignored to refocus on the tingling.
- Noting adds something – never note
- 5 minutes – watch tingle
7:15 – 7:30 Review & Q/A
- First focus is the tingle for weeks. Maybe months. Commit to this for months if necessary.
- Distractions – normal and shouldn’t cause a bump in mind. Zero. Return to tingle without effort, without anger, or being distracted.
- Q&A
- Tomorrow – sit two times for 20 minutes
- Journal your experience. Share next class – Sunday
- Reach me on WhatsApp +66 63549xxx or email: [email protected]
🧘♂️ Class 2 – Perfect Concentration (90 min)
Goal – Help them reach and understand access concentration. Teach how to recognize stability, pleasure, breath fading, and early Jhana signals.
6:00 – 6:20 Share Experiences
- Check-in from last session
- Share experiences — common patterns?
6:20 – 6:30 Perfect Concentration
- What is Perfect Concentration?
- Signs:
- Body becomes “quiet,” breath light or invisible
- Time perception may fade
- Thoughts stop forming
- Sounds are not noticed
- Focus is work, then effortless focus maintained
6:30 – 6:35 Adjustments
- Techniques to adjust and stabilize:
- Every now and then, scan body for pain, problems, straight neck
- Let go of all emotion present around disappointment or ambition to succeed
6:35 – 6:45 10 Minute Practice
- Silent Practice
- Tingle on/off focus
- Thoughts arising mean nothing, refocus on tingle
- Neutral mind, watching only
6:45 – 6:50 Nothing Means Anything
Go back to focusing on the tingle without thinking about what just distracted you. As quickly as possible and without any drama or making the mind move in any direction except to refocus.
- Thoughts arise = irrelevant
- Fear, anxiety, am I doing it right arise = irrelevant
- Sounds are heard = irrelevant
- Brief body feeling = irrelevant
- Body posture adjustment = irrelevant
6:50 – 7:00 10 Minute Practice
Moving forward. That’s how your meditation sessions should be thought of. A brick taken out of the wall.
- Sit as still as possible – as if you aren’t there
7:00 – 7:15 Review Perfect Concentration
- Sit as still as possible – as if you aren’t there
- The reward is sitting. Silence. Peace of mind. Relaxation. Mind rest.
- The answer is always to “let go” without any mind movement at all.
7:15 – 7:30 Q/A
- Meditate now if you have time for 15-20 minutes
- Meditate tomorrow for 20 minutes
- Write in your journal after each session
- See you on Tuesday for Transitioning from Perfect Concentration to the 1st Deep Jhana
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🧘♂️ Class 3 – Entering 1st Deep Jhana (90 min)
Goal – Guide them toward the Deep Jhana transition.
6:00 – 6:20 Experience Sharing
- Check-in: How far were students able to focus 100% on tingling?
- Realistic time-frame. Share my experience.
6:10 – 6:45 First Deep Jhana
- What is the First Jhana?
- Difference between Perfect Concentration and 1st Jhana
- Difference between light and deep Jhanas
- What is absorption?
- Solid vs Unsteady 1st Deep Jhana
- 100% Concentration on Tingle, effortless, awareness without thought, emptiness (breath vanishes)
- Sit in emptiness over many sessions if necessary
6:45 – 7:00 Mind Sign
- What is a mind sign?
- Possible mind signs?
- What to do when experience it?
- What is the experience?
- May go nowhere from here, may move forward
- Sit in it and experience it fully
7:00 – 7:15 Letting Jhana Happen
- Experience the mind sign
- In the experience there is something nice, good, positive. focus there.
- No grasping
- No rush. You’re basically there already.
- Bliss blossoms. Continuous growth/expansion. Focus 100% there.
- What is 1st Jhana like?
7:15 – 7:20 Grasping Destroys Concentration, Mind Sign, Jhana
- Grasping, fear, excitement, ambition, pride, satisfaction, all of it inhibits experiences
- Even monks start to get 1st Jhana and never get it again. Why? Importance of it in their mind.
7:20 – 7:30 Q/A, Homework
- Crucial bits: Attitude, consistency, rock solid focus, emotionless focusing, minus all nonsense/superstition
- Not sharing with friends, not encouraging them to share with you. Don’t spit in the soup.
- Daily meditation 1x per day. Preparation is essential. 20+ minutes sitting. More not always better. Keep motivation high.
- Whatsapp or email for Q’s
- Free book links, free video link, $100 credit for in-person retreat here in Krabi Thailand.
- Follow up Survey