Editing Noble Eightfold Path (section)

====Development into equanimity====
Although often translated as "concentration", as in the limiting of the attention of the mind on one object, in the fourth ''dhyana'' "equanimity and mindfulness remain",{{sfn|Bronkhorst|1993|p=63}} and the practice of concentration-meditation may well have been incorporated from non-Buddhist traditions.{{sfn|Bronkhorst|1993|pp=53–70}} Vetter notes that ''samadhi'' consists of the [[four stages of awakening]], but
{{blockquote|...to put it more accurately, the first dhyana seems to provide, after some time, a state of strong concentration, from which the other stages come forth; the second stage is called samadhija.{{sfn|Vetter|1988|p=13}}}}

Gombrich and Wynne note that, while the second ''jhana'' denotes a state of absorption, in the third and fourth ''jhana'' one comes out of this absorption, being mindfully awareness of objects while being indifferent to it.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gombrich |first=Richard |date=1997 |title=Religious Experience in Early Buddhism |url=https://ocbs.org/religious-experience-in-early-buddhism/ |access-date=31 March 2022 |website=Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies |language=en-GB |archive-date=29 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220129114243/https://ocbs.org/religious-experience-in-early-buddhism/ |url-status=live }}</ref> According to Gombrich, "the later tradition has falsified the jhana by classifying them as the quintessence of the concentrated, calming kind of meditation, ignoring the other – and indeed higher – element."