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Attaining A Jhana Live: How Anyone Can Achieve Super Wellbeing

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Attaining A Jhana Live: How Anyone Can Achieve Super Wellbeing

AI & I

2025/12/16
AI & I

AI & I

2025/12/16
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We recorded someone guide himself into a Jhana live on our podcast. And he narrated the whole process from start to finish. Jhanas are meditative bliss states and they traditionally require thousands of hours of practice. But Stephen Zerfas and his team a...

Highlights

In this episode, listeners are taken on an intimate journey into the depths of meditative consciousness as Stephen Zerfas guides himself into a Jhana state in real time. What unfolds is not just a demonstration of advanced meditation, but a window into a transformative practice once reserved for long-term practitioners. The session reveals how structured support and modern techniques can dramatically accelerate access to profound states of well-being.
04:07
Jhana states can now be accessed more efficiently using structured feedback and guided narration.
32:23
Trying to enter a Jhana often leads to failure, which is part of the teaching.
36:12
The key to entering the state is to enjoy oneself and realize you're already open
42:21
Using meditation to escape painful emotions can lead to worse outcomes
45:04
Memory reconsolidation is part of the meditation journey and requires emotional stability.
48:23
Co-activating emotional charges with compassion can reset personality patterns.
53:10
The game of Jhana pays dividends in relationships, building habits, and decision-making.
1:01:23
Super well-being is as tractable and important as super longevity and super intelligence.
1:09:41
AI could guide individuals to Jhana without human teachers by analyzing student data and personalizing meditation paths.

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Introduction
00:00
A primer on Jhana meditation
01:18
Zerfas guides himself into a Jhana
05:47
Why Jhana is about resting into what already exists
36:04
Approaching meditation with play and curiosity
39:30
The potential pitfalls of Jhana meditation
45:04
How to hack your personality through memory reconsolidation
48:21
Why Jhana won't let you numb yourself to real problems
53:10
How Jhana meditation has changed Zerfas
55:36
How Jhourney is using AI to make Jhanas more accessible
1:09:41

Transcript

Stephen Zerfas: Just thinking about the question of suffering seriously is a little bit of a contrarian take in the world right now. And I think that's silly. If we're already taking super longevity and super intelligence seriously, why not take super well...