The Buddha and the Jhanas

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The Buddha already attained the 1st jhana when he was a child as per MN 36:

I considered: ‘I recall that when my father the Sakyan was occupied, while I was sitting in the cool shade of a rose-apple tree, quite secluded from sensual pleasures, secluded from unwholesome states, I entered upon and abided in the first jhāna, which is accompanied by applied and sustained thought, with rapture and pleasure born of seclusion."

In MN 26, the Buddha already mastered both Rupa and ARupa jhanas when studying under the two masters Alara Kalama and Uddaka Ramaputta. The topic of Jhana in general was discussed extensively in many suttas, here're some examples.

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📝 Do all conditioned things arise from ignorance?
📝 Ignoring thoughts vs. understanding them
📝 Are we taught to try to understand our fears?
📝 Is buddhism trivialist?
📝 Subconscious & Vipassana
📝 Are feelings (vedana) always caused by ignorance?
📝 How does Buddhist (supra-mundane) Happiness differ from ‘mundane’ happiness?
📝 Is Buddhism in conflict with manliness?
📝 Is understanding a "bring-debt" or "gain-debt"?
📝 Are there different types of craving?
📝 How can I focus on breath at the tip of my nose?
📝 Is there a sutta which answers where a nirvanaised consciousnesses is after death and comapres it to a fire going out?
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📝 How can I tell the difference between the Deva realm and the Buddha and bodhisattva realms?
📝 The dilemma of enlightenment
📝 What is the Theravada Buddhist lay lifestyle?
📝 Experience of meditation
📝 What happens if no beings choose to act on one's bad karma?
📝 How to deal with distractions during meditation?
📝 Vipassana Bhavana
📝 Statement from visuddhimagga regarding mental and material body
📝 Did Ledi Sayadaw invent a vipassana technique?
📝 How to persuade my mother to stop her infidelity?
📝 Earliest usage of "rope or snake" allegory in Buddhist literature?
📝 What is the (middle length) sutta, where Buddha exposes a monk, who has an ignorant view of non-self?
📝 Meditation and good deeds vs clarity of mind during death
📝 How exactly i can access my Astral body in meditation?
📝 Did Pudgalavada Buddhists claim the the "person" existed between lives and / or in one life?
📝 Is insecticide treated mosquito nets against 1st precept?

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