Buddha learnt all the eight dhyanas.
He went to,
Now the story begins mostly at the seventh dhyana guru.
The guru who taught him seven dhyana said,
This is my max,
This is all I know.
You go to my guru and learn the eighth dhyana because I have not been able to do it.
I have not been able to master it.
So Buddha said,
Okay thank you.
He goes to the eighth guru,
The guru's guru and learns the eighth dhyana,
Dhyana.
Buddha is an expert at these things.
He is an expert.
He has to just be told once and he makes it happen.
His thirst is so much.
So very quickly he learnt eighth dhyana or eighth chhana and he mastered it and then he tells the guru,
But this does not take away my dukkha.
My mind is still craving.
My mind is still in aversion.
There is misery.
How do I get out of this?
Then the guru says,
This is the highest you are going to find and I have taught you the highest.
You can start teaching from now but there is nothing higher than this.
Buddha was not satisfied with this answer.
But of course he was respectful.
He said farewell to the guru.
He went and he decided no,
No there is something missing.
I don't know what it is but there is something missing.
There has to be a way to get out of this raga dvesha mind.
There has to be a way to get out of dukkha.
Yeah.
He was very clear there is dukkha.
Dukkha is not outside.
It is in my own mind.
When I crave for something I come out of my eighth dhyana also.
Eighth dhyana is very quiet mind.
You also tasted it here and there.
Quiet mind,
Absolute silence and when you came out of it,
You don't like it.
Imagine somebody who is established in it and still can see the existence of raga and vesha.
So he said no,
No,
No.
There is craving.
There is aversion in me still and I am not going to fool myself or fool others by teaching them right now when I am not clear.
So then he started his personal research.
Yes and that came up as the ninth dhyana.
So we called it nirodha.
It's there.
We will come to it.
So you know that it is ninth dhyana or nirodha where there is complete cessation of the mind.
Nirodha to stop and buddha was the first person to discover nirodha.
He always says that I did not create it.
It existed.
I just found it.
That's why he says I discovered it.
And he says this also that maybe it was there in the Vedas but we lost so much of the Vedas,
Maybe this knowledge got lost somewhere.
