I just experienced Jhana for the first time tonight and I am still feeling the effects of it all
Dhyana (Sanskrit)
My body had the most intense tingling vibrations, the kind of intensity that words do not describe. As far as what my research is telling me I experienced deep, deep raptured joy, and meditative state of being. I started to feel an electric, buzzing, or rushing sensation that started out small by my body resting and my vision darkening into pitch black, and eventually there was just so much build up that encompassed my entire body.
As my focus detached from my physical senses, I began (and am still) seeing/saw swirling lights, shifting patterns, or a glowing aura (known in Buddhism as what I now know to be nimitta).
It produced a non-sensual, euphoric bliss that leeft my body feeling expanded or "electrified" with the most intense tingling vibration.
I am so, so grateful. I am starting to understand "my true nature".
Ommmmmmmm
Namaste
Edit: I experienced Jhana (Pali) or Dhyana (Sanskrit) without knowing why. It was pure divinity. Here is a YouTube video that delves more into it than I can in one post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_PW8k8BA_o
Enlightenment once you begin the path of self discovering it is so beyond the definition of bliss and gratitude.
May we all be mindful and compassionate for the less fortunate who have a long road to walk, taking that next step into the expansion of love and stillness, to be wearing to ponder wearing our bare feet on the long journey, in which we are walking all of the people we know, but also see and do not know, home.