ât proper, monks, that sons of good families, on having gone forth out of faith from home to the homeless life, should talk on such a topic. When you have gathered you have two duties: either Dhamma-talk or noble silence."1 Then, on realizing the significance of that, the Blessed One on that occasion exclaimed: Any sensual bliss in the world, any heavenly bliss, isnât worth one sixteenth-sixteenth of the bliss of the ending of craving. Note 1. SN 21:1 equates noble silence with the second jhṅna. This apparently relates to the fact that directed thought and evaluation, which MN 44 identifies as verbal fabrications, are abandoned when going from the first jhṅna into the second. - --> - - - -