Reply To: Pathama Metta Sutta (AN 4.125)

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firewns
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One more thing, Upekkha100.

Please do not misunderstand Akvan. I fully believe Akvan is a sincere and helpful fellow being. He has often offered advice which I highly respect and found beneficial. So I was pleasantly surprised to see his post today.

He probably wanted to point out to you the danger of being caught up in the pursuit of anariya jhanas. If successful, that could lead to rebirth in a Brahma realm where lobha, dosa and moha are only temporarily suppressed. The Brahma being may fail to realise dukkha and the urgent need to continue any more practice to attain Nibbana, so comparatively blissful to the human realm is a Brahma realm. Even in the human realm which has so much more suffering, many people refuse to see dukkha in their lives; what more can we expect in the Brahma realm? At the cuti-patisandhi moment, he may come to grasp a bhava in the apayas, due to previous kamma vipaka ripening.