Refreshing and clear, Leigh Brasington describes the meditation practice of the Jhanas, providing the reader with an exciting insight into these states of consciousness and the resulting experiences of happiness. This valuable spiritual guide is based on his extraordinary wealth of experience. Leigh Brasington succeeds in offering clear and comprehensible instructions for the Jhana practice of meditative absorptions, gradually revealing the path of the individual stages of concentration to the reader. Through the stilling of the mind and letting go in meditation, higher states of consciousness and deep joy and happiness can be experienced. This book is the result of his many years of teaching in Europe and North America and is based on his own meditation experiences and the Jhana teachings found in Buddhist discourses. Leigh was the main student of Ayya Khema.