Attainment of Cessation
Touching Nirvana with the body
Sphere of Formlessness
8th Jhana Neither
perception nor non-perception
7th Jhana Nothingness
6th Jhana Infinite
Consciousness
5th Jhana Infinite Space
Sphere of Pure Form
4th Jhana Concentration,
Equanimity, Beyond pleasure and pain .
Psychic power attained at this stage
Psychic power attained at this stage
3rd Jhana Concentration, Equanimity
2nd Jhana Concentration, Rapture, Joy
Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, Retrocognition, Telepathy, Psychokinesis
1st Jhana Discursive thought, Detachment, Rapture, Joy
Source:
Damien Keown. Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford
University Press, 2013), p. 100.
Notes:
Damien Keown (born 1951) is a prominent bioethicist and authority on Buddhist bioethics.[1] He currently teaches in the Department of History at the University of London. Keown earned a BA in religious studies from the University of Lancaster in 1977 and a DPhil from the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University in 1986.
Keown's most important books include The Nature of Buddhist Ethics (1992) and Buddhism & Bioethics (1995). His most widely read book is Buddhism, A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press).