| Nyanamoli thera |
11.There is, however, this difference. When the immaterial-sphere conscious- ness has arisen in this way, the bhikkhu, who has been formerly looking at the kasiṇa disk with the jhāna eye finds himself looking at only space after that sign has been abruptly removed by the attention given in the preliminary work thus “space, space. ” He is like a man who has plugged an opening in a [covered] vehicle, a sack or a pot2 with a piece of blue rag or with a piece of rag of some such colour as yellow, red or white and is looking at that, and then when the rag is removed by the force of the wind or by some other agency, he finds himself looking at space. |