#dhyana

Heads up, world! The ultimate generation is finally on the mic. In the fourth episode of the This is Life Podcast, we decided to stop talking about Gen Z and let them do the talking.

We had a whole squad invade the studio: Not 2, not 3, but FOUR of the most awesome (and maybe occasionally cringe 😉) representatives: DOD, Dhyana, Neysa, and Sybil!

The Topic Was Simple: THEM. We tackled the chaos: the hot topic of Gen Z this and Gen Z that. Is it finally their time to shine, make a massive difference, and contribute their unique vision to the world? Or are they just here to burn the whole era down? (Spoiler: we're still processing the answer).

Seriously, their energy was maxed out. They held nothing back.

You HAVE to watch/listen, because we're either going to be complimenting this generation or totally condemning them based on their own words. Don't miss the chaos!

Tune in now to hear their unfiltered takes and tell us what YOU think! ⬇️

Date: 11 December 2025

1 Duration: 34 minutes at 2:34 PM

2 Duration: 33 minutes at 10:34 PM

Depth:

It is impossible for me to convey the pleasure of meditation sans self-interruptions. I wish for all to experience the uninterruptedness mentioned in Wikipedia’s page for the seventh step of ‘Dhyana’ in Patanjali’s 8 limbed Yoga.

I didn’t know that such uninterruptedness didn’t come until one’s practice had reached the depths of the deep sleeping mind. I had read about both but I didn’t know they coincided.

The deep sleeping mind doesn’t dream because it doesn’t have enough movement to it. A certain degree of restlessness is required for imagery to be formed. It is such restlessness that our earthly desires take advantage of when weaving us dream images. However, our deep sleeping mind doesn’t have enough movement to it.

Even at its shallow end, the deep sleeping mind provides the attention with its hard earned seat. Attention sitting in a relatively motionless mind space brings about uninterrupted meditation. The attention doesn’t detach itself from the technique one has committed to in the moment.

That is unlike making repeated efforts to detach the attention from a variety of distractions. Years back I had accepted that the meditational task I was here to perform was to gently detach my attention from its favourite distractions. And now I am simply sailing through meditations without a distraction related fight.

Trying to meditate more,, but it is honestly so hard with ADHD 😵‍💫

I think my record this month is like 8 minutes to be honest

But every time I meditate for more than 10 minutes, it’s like the craziest experience,

once I was meditating and i got so extremely dizzy that I had to stop

It felt like I was literally falling through the air I had to wake myself up

The Quest for Buddhism (109)

Buddhist cosmology

Mental Factors in Buddhism - The relationship between Panchangika and the 5 hindrances

The Panchangika(Ref3), which are the components of the Mental Factors (Skt: caitasika, Pali: cetasika Ref2) in the Rupa-jhana(Ref), and the five Hindrances (Ref4), which are the mind poisons that hinder them, are just in a trade-off (interchangeable) relationship.

The correspondence between the Panchangika and the 5 Hindrances is as follows:

Therefore, by suppressing the five hindrances through the 4 immeasurable minds (“meditation on compassion”) and the Buddhanussati ("Buddha-mindfulness"), while at the same time raising the panchangika, it then becomes easier to enter into jhana as ‘upacara-samadhi’ as wll as ‘appana samādhi’ which is the complete immersion of the mind in the meditation on the object and the stability of all 4 rupa jhana.

Buddhanussati (Skt: Buddhanusmrti), meaning "Buddha-mindfulness", is a common Buddhist practice in all Buddhist traditions which involves meditating on the virtues of the Buddha, mainly Gautama Buddha as the meditation or contemplation subject. Upacara-samadhi is a state of concentration in Theravada Buddhism that is equivalent to zen meditation (jhana Ref5). It is one of the Rupa-jhana (samadhi).

仏教の探求 (109)

仏教の宇宙論

心所(しんじょ)〜 五禅支と五蓋の関係

四禅 (しぜん、梵: ﾙｰﾊﾟﾃﾞｲﾔｰﾅ参照)における心所 (しんじょ、梵: ﾁｬｲﾀｼｶ、巴: ﾁｪｰﾀｼｶ参照2)の構成要素である五禅支(ごぜんし、梵: ﾊﾟﾝﾁｬﾝｷﾞｶﾞ参照3)と、その妨げとなる煩悩としての五蓋 (ごがい、巴: ﾊﾟﾝﾁｬ･ﾆｰｳﾞｧﾗﾅｰﾆ 参照4)は、ちょうど、入れ替えの関係にある。

五禅支と五蓋の対応関係は、以下の通り:

したがって、四無量心 (しむりょうしん、梵: ｱﾌﾟﾗﾏｰﾆｬ, 巴: ｱｯﾊﾟﾏﾅｰ、「慈悲の瞑想」) や仏隨念 (ぶつずいねん、梵:ﾌﾞｯﾀﾞｰﾇｯｻﾃｨ、「仏心」) などによって五蓋 (ごがい)を抑えつつ、五禅支(ごぜんし)を高めていくことで、近行定 (きんぎょうじょう、巴:ｳﾊﾟﾁｬｰﾗ･ｻﾏｰﾃﾞｨ)、そして安止定 (梵: ｱｯﾊﾟｰﾅ･ｻﾏｰﾃﾞｨ＝対象の瞑想に心を完全に没頭させ、四禅すべてが安定している状態) としての禅定 (梵: ﾃﾞｲﾔｰﾅ、巴: ｼﾞｬｰﾅ参照5)に入って行きやすくなる。

Today’s Book of the Day is Yoga Sutras, written by Patanjali around the 2nd century BCE. Patanjali  – पतञ्जलि, also called Gonardiya or Gonikaputra, was a Hindu author, mystic, and philosopher, who was believed to be a Siddhar, an enlightened scholar of Yoga and spiritual knowledge. He lived between the 2nd and 4th centuries CE. I have chosen this book because people often ask me which kind of…