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In Buddhist meditation, the development of concentrative absorption (Sanskrit: dhyāna; Pali: jhāna) is canonically described in terms of the following five factors: * applied thought (vitakka) * sustained thought (vicāra) * joy/rapture/happiness (pīti) * happiness/pleasure/bliss (sukha) * equanimity (upekkhā) Both pīti and sukha are born of bodily seclusion and mental quietude. The 5th c. CE Visuddhimagga distinguishes between pīti and sukha in the following experiential manner:

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  • In Buddhist meditation, the development of concentrative absorption (Sanskrit: dhyāna; Pali: jhāna) is canonically described in terms of the following five factors: * applied thought (vitakka) * sustained thought (vicāra) * joy/rapture/happiness (pīti) * happiness/pleasure/bliss (sukha) * equanimity (upekkhā) Both pīti and sukha are born of bodily seclusion and mental quietude. The 5th c. CE Visuddhimagga distinguishes between pīti and sukha in the following experiential manner:
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  • In Buddhist meditation, the development of concentrative absorption (Sanskrit: dhyāna; Pali: jhāna) is canonically described in terms of the following five factors: * applied thought (vitakka) * sustained thought (vicāra) * joy/rapture/happiness (pīti) * happiness/pleasure/bliss (sukha) * equanimity (upekkhā) Both pīti and sukha are born of bodily seclusion and mental quietude. The 5th c. CE Visuddhimagga distinguishes between pīti and sukha in the following experiential manner: And wherever the two are associated, happiness [here, Ñāṇamoli's translation of pīti] is the contentedness at getting a desirable object, and bliss [sukha] is the actual experiencing of it when got. Where there is happiness [pīti] there is bliss (pleasure) [sukha]; but where there is bliss [sukha] there is not necessarily happiness [pīti]. Happiness is included in the formations aggregate; bliss is included in the feeling aggregate. If a man exhausted in a desert saw or heard about a pond on the edge of a wood, he would have happiness; if he went into the wood's shade and used the water, he would have bliss....
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