So anyone curious to try, I recommend first understandings how to properly meditate. After you have good experience with this can you move onto the jhanas. I highly recommend: <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Right-Concentration-Practical-Guide-Jhanas-ebook/dp/B017JJOXQ6" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Right-Concentration-Practical-Guide...</a><p>If you know how to do step 1 and then follow this book to the T. You will experience the jhanas.<p>I however caveat, you don't want to do this. It's a bad decision. You don't want to do this, really.<p>>Is Jhana Really Better Than Sex?<p>Absolutely, up to the third jhana.<p>>Can Jhana Really Substitute For Other Pleasures?<p>The author clearly has not walked the full path. Then again someone who did would not write this blog.<p>>really helped people avoid addictions<p>Absolutely no question.<p>>IV. What Can Science Tell Us About Jhanas?<p>The science path is a bad decision.<p><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Buddhism-True-Philosophy-Enlightenment/dp/1439195455" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Buddhism-True-Philosophy-Enligh...</a><p>Let folks like Robert Wright make this mistake for you. For someone like him, he almost certainly has lost the ability to enter jhana.