>"Ole Holten Pind" <oleholtenpind@...> wrote:
>
> There are no descriptions in the early canon of the nature of

tapokasi.na.

> The passage you refer to clearly does not implicate tapokasi.na. In
> addition, there is no reference to the jhaanas, that are essential

to

> kasi.na practice. The are actually similar canonical descriptions

of persons

> who enter the fire element (tejodhaatu.m samaapajjitvaa) and hover

in the

> air, the Bddh, for instance, cf. the Brahmasamyutta. No meditation

is

> implied.

I consider that the term, tejo-dhaatu.m samaapajjati, used in the
context of the text (Ud. 8. 9) clearly indicates a kind of
meditation (samaapajjati): " ... sitting cross-legged in the sky,
attined tejo-dhaatu ..."

> You will find descriptions of this type of meditation in
>Visuddhimagga and in the Vimuttimagga in the respective chapters on
>the subjects of meditation.

Here you seem to say that it is a type of meditation about tejo-
dhaatu?!

Regards,

Thomas Law