This is a complete meditation handbook with all the instructions to achieve the goal and all of the levels of knowledge along the way. And now includes full text of "A Guide to Tranquil Wisdom Insight Meditation (TWIM)" and the full text of "A Guide to Forgiveness Meditation." You will learn a different definition for Mindfulness that totally changes how you practice; and about a step in the text that has been left out of contemporary practices that is the key to the deepest levels of tranquility. Learn the basics of Tranquil Wisdom Insight Meditation (TWIM) which is really the practice of Loving-kindness and the Brahmaviharas from the earliest Buddhist texts: The Majjhima Nikaya and the Samyutta Nikaya. This book will guide you from the beginning stages to the highest attainments laid out clearly and concisely. Many previous students experiences have been compiled and researched to create the basis for this book.

Path to Nibbana: How Mindfulness of Loving-Kindness Progresses through the Tranquil Aware Jhanas to Awakening, David C. Johnson, Paperback, 306 pages, $17.95

David Johnson has been in residence at the Dhamma Sukha Meditation Center since 2010. He is a longtime senior student of Bhante Vimalaramsi and has participated in many retreats and teaches the online TWIM retreats in Metta and Forgiveness meditation. This is his first book about meditation practice and the Buddha's teachings. He also manages the website materials and publishes all of the various DSMC videos and books. From 1973 to 1978, he was the meditation center retreat manager for the Stillpoint Institute, a San Jose, California-based Vipassana center. He assisted in the growth of the center and managed its financial and administrative affairs. From the 1980s to 2010 he worked in the San Francisco Bay Area at several networking companies as a production and logistics manager. He then decided to join Bhante in his mission to bring TWIM to the world in 2010 and moved to Missouri on a permanent basis.