I am not at all in agreement with your assertion " Insight
(vipassana) is simply the other side of the coin from absorption
(jhana). I have found they are simply different aspects of the same
thing"
Insight(Vipassana) is one thing, Samatha along with the Jhana
absorptions is another. Sallekha sutta says absorptions are
abiding in peace here and now. Insight(vipassana) is the
analytical aspect of meditation. You may perhaps be mistaking
Vipassana Jhana for samathat jhana absorptions, which are again two
diferent things.
You may call it fiction if you want to, but to say both samatha
Jhana absorptions and insight(vipassana) are the same thing is
incorrect. Your thirty year meditation experience does not give
credit to your assertion.
with metta,
Hasituppada.
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Insight (vipassana) is simply the other side of the coin from
absorption (jhana). I have found they are simply different aspects
of the same thing. It is like fire. Fire has two properties, one
is to produce heat, and the other is to produce light. The same is
true of absorption (samadhi), It produces both ecstasy (jhana) and
insight (vipassana). One does not come without the other. Any
belief otherwise is simply fiction.