Suffering 90% less, my meditation journey so far I kind of resent that Not Suffering got old so fast. I was *shocked* for the first 6 months or so, and now all I can recall is a faint memory of anything ever being any different. In ~October of last year, I stopped suffering regularly. For mo... See more

I later realized that was a mistake. The power of the jhanas was not that they offered a temporary escape from our otherwise pallid lives — as we typically think of pleasurable vices — but that, with repeated practice, they somehow elevated my everyday life to be more jhana-like.