Evolving Dharma
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🆕 Designing Pragmatic Dharma
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I'm teaching on the meditative harmonics of his tradition in the pragmaticdharma.app next week, looking at what I'm calling here The Forest chord.
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The Father of the Thai Forest Tradition, Ajahn Mun.
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"If you can't awaken through love, what are we even talking about." – @vincefhorn
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Not bad for the first month of the Pragmatic Dharma app!
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I remember Rob Burbea sort of popularizing imaginal meditation, with his Soulmaking Dharma, in the Western Insight / Mindfulness community.
But, of course, the Diety Yoga of Vajrayana Buddhism is super-charged imaginal practice.
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A distraction arises. Two moves:
Exclusive jhāna: “No, not now” — let it go. Inclusive jhāna: “Yes, this too” — let it be. Both go as deep as you like. The art is knowing which move the moment needs.
Free field guide: jhanamastery.com
Every jhāna eventually fragments and vanishes. That’s the problem with states.
The 9th jhāna isn’t a state—it’s the nature of every state. The one jhāna you can’t practice. You just are it.
Free field guide: jhanamastery.com
Shamatha polishes the telescope. Vipassana points it.
Aim absorbed attention at arising and passing itself: the 3rd vipassana jhāna is groundlessness as a problem. The 4th is groundlessness, no problem.
Free field guide: jhanamastery.com
Riding the jhānic arc—up through the eight jhānas, then back down—is like playing scales: run them until the whole range is home territory.
What it builds is confidence.
Free field guide: jhanamastery.com
