Concepts: Ā

Ideas, aesthetics, movements, and abstractions named in the archive. This section collects the Ā slice of the category index.

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āloka kasina

āloka kasina is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between March 27, 2026 and March 27, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as "Dhammakaya practice of meditating on a vision of a crystal ball at one’s heart as a form of āloka kasina (bright light kasina)". It most often appears alongside Arthur, Arthur T, BANGKOK.

Reference entry
āloka kasina
Mention count
1
Issue count
1
First seen
March 27, 2026
Last seen
March 27, 2026
March 27, 2026 · Original source
Scholars have actually classified the Dhammakaya [practice of meditating on a vision of a crystal ball at one’s heart] as a form of āloka kasina (bright light kasina). A UK survey found that kasina practitioners form about 3–15% of total meditators — 3% for kasina alone, but 15% if those practicing the āloka kasina practice of Dhammakaya meditation are included. So from an outside scholarly perspective, what they’re doing is arguably already a type of kasina practice — just not fire kasina, and not one they’d describe in those terms themselves.