Vern Lovic is a meditation author and the founder of Jhana8, a long-running platform focused on concentration, Deep Jhāna, and profound meditative concentration development.
For years, he has written extensively about advanced meditation practice, deep absorption, and the disciplined training of attention. His work is grounded not only in study, but in direct experience with the kinds of concentration states that many people read about but never approach in a structured or practical way.
Perfect Focus State was created to bring that depth into a modern one-on-one format for founders, executives, high-performers, and serious meditators who want more than basic relaxation or generic mindfulness.
Rather than teaching meditation as a lifestyle accessory, Vern’s work focuses on the direct cultivation of stronger concentration, reduced mental noise, and a steadier, clearer mind.
His background includes years of engagement with classical concentration frameworks, including the deep meditative states described in Theravāda tradition, while his teaching style remains practical, clear, and stripped of unnecessary fluff.
The aim is simple.
To help people build a mind that can stay steady, focused, and clear when it matters most.
Our Logo
We finished the logo this morning. We, meaning my teenage daughter and I. She’s excellent on the iPad in drawing programs and she could be an artist if she goes that way in life. Fingers crossed!
Here’s what I thought was the final version, but I think I will change it slightly. I’ll explain in a bit.
The meditator sitting with upturned hands – minimalist hands – haha- shows generally one of the stable postures of meditation. There are many. Sitting in a chair or step often works better than anything else.
The darker green/blue at the base – for the text, the legs and lower torso signifies solidity. Unwavering centeredness. Moving toward the head there is less denseness. A lightness of being, of objectivity.
The first halo is light green/blue to signify that the realm leading up to the Perfect Focus State is still part of known reality and yet is moving away from it. The state leading up to Perect Concentration is still connected with the body, as the focus of the mind is on a tangible sense object – the feeling of the breath in the nose.
The center grey sphere on this halo represents Perfect Concentration. It is not of the body. It is a separate non-dual state that is the first real meditation attainment on the path toward Jhana.
The outer ring – the lines – need to be lightened up even more to represent the Jhana realm. I think they will match the shade of the 8 grey spheres on the halo. They are all the same stuff, and yet each Jhana (each sphere) is separated slightly to show the uniqueness of it.
The legs of the meditator are folded in a way that forms an infinity sign. I’ve seen that on many different graphics of meditators and sometimes liked it. Here it fits because my original logo for Jhana8.com had the ‘8’ tilted to the right at a 45° angle as if leaning toward the infinite, the unkown.
The name ‘Perfect Focus State’ describes the state of mind present when the mind locks in 100% on the feeling of the breath in the nose to the exclusion of all else. When you are able to reach this state in your meditation sessions, your thinking after exiting the session becomes crystal clear without noise. You decide what to look at and what factors come into play. You’re not affected by random noise that has no bearing on the situation… the decisions you need to make.
This is similar to a post-Jhana state of mind Buddhists strive for in order to do insight meditation. Insightful questions about the truth or falseness of reality are asked and answers are more easily seen.
It is states like these that are the focus of our intensive 1 on 1 retreats .