Here you are to imagine something you can expand, starting out by expanding past the things in your vicinity, expand farther past all objects, and stay focused on the sense of expansion. If you can do so, eventually, a vast, empty space will appear before you. Don’t look for the space; if you do that, you are not focused on the expansion and thereby prevent the infinite space from appearing. You have to just focus on the expansion, and eventually the endless space will come and find you. The first jhāna was not the pleasant sensation to which you switched your attention—you needed the pīti and
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