On prickly impediments to jhāna: "Sound is a thorn to the first absorption. Placing the mind and keeping it connected are a thorn to the second absorption. Rapture is a thorn to the third absorption. Breathing is a thorn to the fourth absorption." Kaṇṭaka Sutta
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This usually occurs through initial focus on an attentional anchor (e.g., breath), which triggers the onset of internally-generated indicators of heightened concentration (e.g., visual light perception, pleasant bodily sensation, etc.).
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Such experiences largely replace the previous anchor that generated them and, in-turn, they generate increasingly refined anchors to replace them as well, gradually sloughing off the levels of coarseness as newly unearthed subtleties (e.g., equanimity) emerge into the foreground.
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