Jhanas and Ñanas, with Kenneth Folk

In this talk, recorded during a Pragmatic Dharma Retreat, Kenneth Folk lays out a meta-system for understanding the different understandings of deep Jhana or meditative absorption and their relationship to the Theravada Buddhist system, the progress of insight knowledges (aka Ñanas).


memorable links:

???? "So we could call this olympic level, nut job jhana." – Kenneth Folk

???? "The insight knowledges are jhanic states." – Kenneth Folk


episode links:

???? Kenneth Folk Dharma

???? Meditating in the Goldilocks Zone, with Vince F. Horn

???? The Progress of Insight by The Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw

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