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The experience of the second jhāna seems to be located lower in the body than the experience of the first jhāna; it’s more in the heart center for most people. It feels like the happiness is coming from your heart and welling up as from a spring.
Right Concentration
Leigh Brasington
Full moon is falling through the sky. Cranes fly through clouds. Wolves howl. I cannot find rest Because I am powerless To amend a broken world.
Under Heaven
Guy Gavriel Kay
Francesca said, “Don’t you ever want to give thanks to God, when things are going well for you? Don’t you ever want to ask God for strength, when you need it?” “No.” “Well, I do. Even though I know God makes no difference. And if God is the reason for everything, then God includes the urge to use the word God. So whenever I gain some strength, or comfort, or meaning, from that urge, then God is the source of that strength, that comfort, that meaning. “And if God – while making no difference – helps me to accept what’s going to happen to me, why should that make you sad?”
Permutation City
Greg Egan
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