Why Meditate?
The changing condition of life motivate our meditation  
  • Gain  and Loss
  • Fame  and Ill-fame 
  • Praise and Blame 
  • Pleasure and Pain 
Effective meditation  was discovered by the Buddha as a release from i aging, sickness, and death. He call it awaking from the dream of existence and taught  thousands of people to experience for themselves freedom of mind – nirvana. 
Why TWIM?
TWIM is a systematic self-directed protocol that cultivates mental and emotional balance that releases or clinging
  • easy to understand,
  • integrative in practice, 
  • effective and results oriented
TWIM practice dissolves habitual urges and habitual attachment that result in painful moods and feelings. It decondition stress reactions in degrees of clarity, joy, contentment. It combines tranquility samantha and insight vipassana meditation principles as they were originally taught at the time of the Buddha. 


​Daily Benifits
  • Reduced stress and anxiety: The focus on relaxation and tranquility can help calm the nervous system and reduce stress and anxiety levels.
  • Improved mental composure: attentive strengthen the ability to apply and maintain attention on an activity for longer periods of time. 
  • Increased awareness: Through mindful observation of thoughts, emotions, and sensations, reoccurring mental patterns and behaviors are recognized and released. 
  • Emotional resilience: calm and tranquility replaces restlessness, anxiety, and painful emotional overloads decrease and dissapear..
  • Openess and compassion: Deeper sensitivity and empathy generates kindness and acceptance towards others.
Transcendance
  • The experience of awakening involves the gradual weakening and eventual eradication of these ten fetters roots of craving
  • Each stage of awakening brings greater freedom from suffering, more happiness, and closer proximity to full liberation.
  • Progress along the path is achieved is through the practice of morality, meditation,, and wisdom.
Level 1: Stream-enterer (Sotapanna): This is the first stage of enlightenment. At this stage, the person has directly experienced Nibbana, the unconditioned state, for the first time. This experience leads to the removal of the first three constraints or fetters:
  • Self-illusion (sakkaya-ditthi): The belief in a permanent, unchanging self.
  • Doubt (vicikiccha): Doubt in the Buddha, the Dhamma (the teachings), and the Sangha (the community of monks and nuns).
  • Clinging to rites and rituals (silabbata-paramasa): The belief that following external rituals or practices alone leads to liberation. A stream-enterer is assured of reaching full enlightenment within seven lifetimes at most, and they will never be reborn in lower realm
Level 2: Once-returner (Sakadagami): This is the second stage of enlightenment. The person has further weakened the next two constraints or fetters:
  • Sensual desire (kama-raga): Craving for sensual pleasures.
  • Ill will (vyapada): Hatred or aversion. A once-returner will be reborn in the human realm only once more before attaining full enlightenment.
Level 3: Non-returner (Anagami): The third stage of enlightenment. The person has completely eradicated the five lower constraints or fetters mentioned in the previous stages. A non-returner will not be reborn in the human realm again but will attain full enlightenment in a higher heavenly realm.

Level 4: Arahant: This is the final stage of enlightenment. The person has completely eradicated all ten constraints or fetters or constraints.
  • Desire for existence in the fine-material world (rupa-raga).
  • Desire for existence in the immaterial world (arupa-raga).
  • Conceit (mana).
  • Restlessness (uddhacca).
  • Ignorance (avijja). An arahant has attained full liberation from suffering and will not be reborn again. They have achieved Nibbana in this very life.​​
TWIM Origin
The principles of Tranquil Wisdom Insight Meditation was originally discovered and taught by the Buddha. His discoursed and dialogues are available in the Pali text translated into English. Because the interoperation vary, Bhante Vimalaramsi, an American Buddhist monk (see bio) living in Asia practiced meditation methods based on widely accepted interruptions and translation derived from the oldest Buddhist texts. 
These approaches to  reaching the goal of mediation did not yield the results stated in the original teachings. Compelled by his noble search for wisdom, he studied the suttas and practiced a variety of interpretations. By trial and error, he discovered variation of the traditional practice were immediatly effective with profound results and benifits that matched the conclusions given by the Buddha.
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He pointed out that TWIM dissolves barriers with the elimination of craving—the root cause of unhappiness and suffering. He concluded that TWIM, when practiced as instructed, unfolds as described in the Buddha's Noble Eightfold Path. It culminates in four potential stages of transindental realizations or ultimate truths know as nirvana.

He concludes that the practice results in the stages of awakening described in the suttas. It is a process of purification of the mind partially or completely through the eradication of specific mental and emotional factors rooted a constellation of causes and conditions that are programed to result in unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Each level of attainment is experienced as mental and emotional liberation— a cutting off from the root causes. He describes the direct experience is profound beyond words and best discribes as awakening. 

 
TWIM Future
Although he passed away in 2023, his legacy continues with his dedicated students teaching world wide with enthusiasm sharing the what the Buddha taught.
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