Hypothesis Non particularized interest as the gateway to reliable 1st jhana. Sense pacification piti as inherently interesting sensations produced by base level, contentless, sensory mind adjusting thresholds for provoking interest downward towards non conceptual awareness.
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Replying to @_StevenFan
Totally agree. This outlines my experience with the inward(downward) travel towards the further jhanas. It always starts with auditory interest then a retraction from outside phenomena and towards bodily signals. Then those fade as awareness sharpens to singular stimuli.
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I think there's a big opportunity here to collect language and experiences of mediators and cross reference them against neurosci. Select results from Buddhism & religion are pre-neuroscience maps of appearance and movement of awareness, built up by 1000s of practitioners.
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