jhana

What Is The First Jhana? The first jhana, (J1), describes a monk, quite secluded from sensuality and unskilful qualities, who enters and remains in the first jhana. He experiences “rapture and pleasure born from withdrawal, accompanied by directed thought and evaluation. Who taught Dhyan Buddha? Alara Kalama (Pāḷi & Sanskrit Āḷāra Kālāma, was a hermit