The no-thingness can manifest visually in two different ways, though of course it doesn’t have to manifest visually, especially if you are not a visual person. The most common way it manifests is as blackness or deep purple or dark blue—much like if you were peering into a room with no windows and no lights. There is a sense of space there, but what really gets your attention is not the space but the overwhelming sense that there is nothing at all to be found in that space. In the fifth jhāna, there is a big space with nothing in it; in the seventh jhāna, there is nothing as far into the space
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