Does Jhana (Lite Jhana/Leigh Brasington) turn the world from endurance to easeful?

[u/tea_and_samadhi]

For a lot of people life really has one large purpose, to endure until consciousness ceases. That's it, to endure.

And that seems like an extremely painful way to exist and leads to short term harmful action solely for the experience of relief. Take food and drug indulgence, or even having children when one can't provide.

My question is, does jhana make life not just easier, not just more endurable...but actually easeful and joyful? Or does it just make life less shit, but it's still a shit that we need to endure? I will obviously have to remove ill health and physical disease as a factor from this question.

Looking for hope here. Looking for motivation. Looking for a real way out not just after death for a better rebirth or no rebirth at all, but looking for a way out of suffering in this very life.

Can the jhanas as taught by Leigh Brasington make one actually happy to be alive? And I really mean that, happy to be here.

[u/Zestyclose_Mode_2642]

I vote yes. Having a secure source of deep pleasure and happiness that you can 100% allow yourself to relax into and enjoy fully without worrying about whether it will lead to suffering and a closing of the heart is a game changer.

Bonus point that developing this source of pleasure is totally endorsed by the buddha, so whatever this or that person has to say negatively about cultivating jhana shouldn't make much of an impression.

Samadhi is your best friend on the path!

[u/parkway_parkway → u/Zestyclose_Mode_2642]

I also vote yes.

If Samsara is a desert of heat and thirst with a few dirty puddles here and there then the Jhanas are an oasis of, calm and cool and you can drink as much as you want.

Makes a big difference to the overall feel of the landscape even if all the rest of it is much the same.