<p>If there's a mapping, I never heard about it. But just from the common sense, you have to be a stream enterer just to start practicing meditation correctly.</p>
<p>People do all kinds of wrong meditation and call some stages of that the first jhana, the second jhana and so on, but in reality you can't do jhana if you have not entered the stream of the right practice by attaining the right understanding.</p>

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<p>Is there a mapping (or relationship) between the 8 stages of <a href="https://www.dhammawiki.com/index.php/9_Jhanas" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Jhanas</a> and the 4 stages of Enlightenment.</p>
<p>This could be a very debatable topic, but really keen to know this.</p>

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Relationship or mapping between Jhanas ( 4 + 4) and the four stages of Enlightment
# Relationship or mapping between Jhanas ( 4 + 4) and the four stages of Enlightment

(Asked by: username_0 on 2023-03-08)

Is there a mapping (or relationship) between the 8 stages of [Jhanas](https://www.dhammawiki.com/index.php/9_Jhanas) and the 4 stages of Enlightenment.

This could be a very debatable topic, but really keen to know this.

**Tags:** enlightenment, jhana


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### Answer by username_1 on 2023-03-09. Score: 1

If there's a mapping, I never heard about it. But just from the common sense, you have to be a stream enterer just to start practicing meditation correctly.

People do all kinds of wrong meditation and call some stages of that the first jhana, the second jhana and so on, but in reality you can't do jhana if you have not entered the stream of the right practice by attaining the right understanding.


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