User talk:Rufe12

May 2020
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Re: Nimitta

 * Established as a separate article from Dhyana. Not only is Nimitta a distinct and important philosophical concept in Buddhism, but Anayalo suggests even as a meditation it is unrelated to Dhyana.

Your edit summary makes no sense. Firstly, nimitta was redirected to Dhyana in Buddhism because that's where it was discussed, in other words, in the context of an article about jhāna. Secondly, you yourself discuss it in the context of jhāna in the new page you created. So saying it is "unrelated" is a very poor choice of words. I have no objection to your new article, but this kind of edit summary is frustrating to me. Viriditas (talk) 06:14, 12 February 2024 (UTC)


 * By there being no relation as a form of mediation, I mean that Animitta-samadhi has nothing to do with Jhana. It is not, in the Pali/Chinese scriptures, a description of sensations on the way to Jhana (though the word used could certainly be used that way, in the scriptures words like "light" is used instead), nor does it apparently require attaining Jhana to practice.


 * I do include the use of Nimitta in Therevada commentary in the article as referring to lights seen before Jhana because practitioners of that meditation tradition would be familiar with the word that way, but this is actually a relatively minor use of the word and should by no means be the only way the topic is addressed on Wikipedia. Rufe12 (talk) 01:30, 14 February 2024 (UTC)