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Difficulties in generalization: Jhanas and memory techniques

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Humans are not automatically general intelligences

The Jhanas are meditative states of extreme bliss, reportedly (I can personally confirm) much better feeling than basically any event in your day-to-day life. They are also practically nonaddictive, to the point where many practitioners basically forget about them for weeks at a time after achieving them. They are often described as “the opposite of a panic attack”, which gets half the story and some of the implementation. The other half, and in fact the half that I find most interesting and important, is the absence of “the hindrances”. The classic list of hindrances is sensual desire, ill…

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