So anyone curious to try, I recommend first understandings how to properly meditate. After you have good experience with this can you move onto the jhanas. I highly recommend:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Right-Concentration-Practical-Guide...If you know how to do step 1 and then follow this book to the T. You will experience the jhanas.
I however caveat, you don't want to do this. It's a bad decision. You don't want to do this, really.
>Is Jhana Really Better Than Sex?
Absolutely, up to the third jhana.
>Can Jhana Really Substitute For Other Pleasures?
The author clearly has not walked the full path. Then again someone who did would not write this blog.
>really helped people avoid addictions
Absolutely no question.
>IV. What Can Science Tell Us About Jhanas?
The science path is a bad decision.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Buddhism-True-Philosophy-Enligh...
Let folks like Robert Wright make this mistake for you. For someone like him, he almost certainly has lost the ability to enter jhana.
