This is oddly different from what he said in person. Also he wrote the first edition of mctb also about twenty years ago now, so I wouldn’t be surprised if his opinion is different from his thirty year old self.
Update, I pinged him on Twitter and he said that people getting jhana on retreat and then thinking that the path is about getting ‘back to that’ is very common, instead of the person pursuing insight practices that lead to day to day changes Rather than peak experiences.
This is oddly different from what he said in person. Also he wrote the first edition of mctb also about twenty years ago now, so I wouldn’t be surprised if his opinion is different from his thirty year old self.
Update, I pinged him on Twitter and he said that people getting jhana on retreat and then thinking that the path is about getting ‘back to that’ is very common, instead of the person pursuing insight practices that lead to day to day changes Rather than peak experiences.
That’s odd. (Note that while this excerpt was already present in the first edition, it was also retained in the second edition.)