jhAna-niggaha

[DEVARAKONDA VENKATA NARAYANA SARMA]

At 07:34 AM 11/16/97 -0000, you wrote:
>>dhyAna-nigraha. Does anybody of the members came
>>across early (or later) buddhist scriptures that
>>use the term dhyAna (Pali jhAna) as "thought"
>>rather than as "meditation
>
>There are certainly cases of the verbal form jhaayati being used in the
>(bad) sense of "brooding" - see, for example, S1.57, Dh 155 and Sn 818
>
>--
>John H Richards
>jhr at elidor.demon.co.uk
>http://www.elidor.demon.co.uk
>
>

We use the word `paradhyAna' to indicate thinking of something else than
the one that is present before the eyes. Distraction.

sarma.