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Rupaloka consciousness
Description:
The first of the three higher states in Pali texts, the [fine-material sphere] in which the [jhana] or mental absorptions of human meditation take place.
Broader:
Worlds of conscious existence
Narrower:
Third trance of the fine-material sphere
First trance of the fine-material sphere
Second trance of the fine-material sphere
Fourth trance of the fine-material sphere
Related:
Dhyana
Phenomena awareness
Form-realm consciousness
Arupaloka consciousness
Trances and mental absorptions
Tibetan meditative states of form concentrations
Third scriptural bodhisattva awareness
Craving for fine-material form