{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Collection of Jhourneys","title":"A Beginner's Journey to Jhana, Personality-Change, and Forgiveness in 100hrs (Zach Lauzon)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4389,"description":"In this episode, we talk to Zach Lauzon, a Google engineer and novice meditator with less than 100 hours of meditation experience who learned the first five jhanas on a recent Jhourney retreat. He shares how the jhanas have changed his worldview, changed his relationship to hard things, and unlocked personality-change in what he describes as “self-therapy.” I tear up as he describes how he used the jhanas to finally process the suicide of his best friend after 7 years of therapy. I think you’ll find many of his tips and ideas, like how he welcomes distractions in meditation, counterintuitive, articulate, inspiring.0:00 Memory of initial jhana experience5:05 Benchmark \"as joyful and exciting as getting my dream job\" but within you7:05 Do big payouts have to come with big work? Or it there within,  just waiting to be found?9:30 Worldview shifting to know the internal resource is just within you14:25 Seeing difficult material in meditation as things to be understood, accepted, loved19:25 Jhana as a basis for difficult emotional work25:22 Experience with parts work and somatic therapies like internal family systems (IFS) affecting meditation29:07 Unshakable resource from deeper jhana and working with the trauma of losing his best friend34:35 Deep sense of equanimity and okayness37:40 To you, what are the jhanas and what do they feel like? (states of harmony and unification). Aliveness/timeliness, then still calmness47:10 Seeing it as \"safety and assuredness\"50:00 How can it be familiar yet worldview breaking? From \"finding\" rather than cultivating55:05 Getting into meditation 8 months prior and just 100hrs practice before jhana1:05:40 Recap of 3 learnings for a novice1:06:50 Growing up, professional background as a software engineer, personal interest in music","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/8J4vQ2pSXn7MMifjEj-I6ONo1X0i8Zs7003Wfdi0k9c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzQ2OTE3LzE3MDE4/OTY2MzQtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}