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and happiness of detachment give birth (vivekaja) and there is the subtle and real idea of
joy and happiness born of concentration: and stay with this idea " .
Then bhikku "for the renunciation of happiness, indifferent. Look carefully and fully
conscious experience in his person the happiness of the wise men speaking (arya), when
they say:" He who is indifferent and thoughtful enjoys happiness. "It's third
* According to the Digha-Nikaya, 1, 71, five are Nivarana sensuality, malice, laziness of
spirit and body, bodily agitation espirirual, doubt. Difleren lists. Compare with the five
"sins" of the Mahabharata, XH, 241, Hopkins, The Register Epic, p. 18L
7 The samadhi of Buddhist texts, being a enstasy analogous to that of the Yoga-Sutra, has
the same role as in the manual of Patanjali. The Mtmadhi seems to be a preliminary
condition to the path of Nirvana. See Note V, 2.
jhana. At that time fades into the idea that subtle and real joy and peace of which he
possessed before, caused by the concentration, and there arises a subtle and realistic idea
of happiness and undifferentiated
After this, the bhikku, relinquishing any sense of comfort or discomfort, by the end of the
joy and the sorrow he experienced before, enters and remains in the fourth jhana, a state
of absolute purity, indifference and Thought (sati ) without welfare or Vanishing
malestar.8 then the idea that subtle and real that fed previously, happiness and
indifference, and there is a real and subtle idea of non-being and distress signals and
remains in this idea "(Pigha Nikaya, I, 182, trans. Oltramare, Buddhist Theosophy, pp.
363-364).
Do not multiply the texts relating to these four stages are jhana.9 clearly identified: 1)
purify "temptations-ing" the intelligence and sensitivity, ie isolate them from the outside
agen-ing, in short, get a first autonomia of consciousness, 2) to delete the dialectical
function of intelligence, obtain concentraci6n, perfect knowledge of an awareness rascary,
3) to suspend all "relaci6n" both with the sensible world and with the memory,
taking pleasure lucidity with only "consciousness exists", 4 °) reinstate the "opposite",
fetch the bliss of "pure consciousness".
But do not stop there the itinerary. You have to add four spiritual exercises Samapatti
called "Variety", preparing for the ascetic "enstasy" final. Despite the rigorous
description given to us, these "states" are hard to understand. Correspond to experiences
not only far in excess of. experiences of normal consciousness, but also the extranettional
experiences (mystical or poetic) that are understandable to the West. erroneo
however would result to explain how inhibition hypnotic tions. During the meditation, is
checked continuously, as we shall see later, the lucidity of a monk, on the other hand,
sleep and hypnotic trance are obstacles that Indian treaties
8 Fisiol6gicamente, the fourth jhana is characterized by the detention of respirad6n,
antlers-Passasa-nirodha (Oltramare, p. 364, footnote 2).
. * Matfhimanikayal, 454; Abhidharmarkosa (trans. L. de la Vallee-Poussin) IV, p. 107;
VIII, pag. 161. Excellent analysis on J. Evola, La dottrina of risveglio (Bari, 1943), p.
200-225. On the pseudo-