The Completion of Vipassana Jhāna
By Vince Fakhoury Horn
Today, in The Jhāna Community, I want to center our exploration around the completion phase—also known as enlightenment.
What is the relationship between enlightenment and jhāna? That’s what we’ll explore.
The Goal of Vipassana Jhāna
In Vipassana jhāna practice, the goal is insight—clearly seeing the way things are. This clear seeing leads to awakening, within the Buddhist frame.
Trudy Goodman uses a beautiful metaphor for this, comparing the phases of insight to the phases of the moon:
“Can we appreciate all the phases of the moon, all the stages of our life? Can we…
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