Sit On Your Own Chair
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there is something impossible for another person to do for us, which is giving peaceful joy. Nobody can give us peaceful joy. It cannot be passed around from hand to hand or head to head. Peaceful joy is something that cannot be given or taken but to be emerged within. If a person has the need, he/she can make it crops up within.
Upul Nishantha Gamage
Upul Nishantha Gamage, present resident meditation teacher, has been guiding thousands of people from different backgrounds who come to Nilambe to practice meditation. According to the article titled “Mistakes” published in Dhammaja (Nilambe Buddhist Meditation centre Newsletter-Volume 2, Jan 2009), he started meditation in 1977, at 13 years of age. At that time, he was instrumental in establishing a Youth Society at a Buddhist Temple near his parents’ house and got involved in many activities as the Secretary of the Society. In late 80’s, he had offered to help Godwin at a point where someone’s assistance with the activities at the Meditation Centre was vital. Subsequently, he had been introduced to those at the Centre by Godwin as the “new boss” of Nilambe. Ever since he has been a very dear friend and an outstanding Dhamma teacher for thousands of people who attend programs conducted by him, also many others who are yet to attend his programs and a counselor for those who are in need of counseling. Besides teaching at Nilambe, Upul conducts programs at prisons, schools, monasteries, private residences etc. He is regularly invited to conduct meditation retreats in Hong Kong, Germany, Switzerland and Sweden. According to his teaching, practice of Meditation paves the path to help ourselves, to understand ourselves and to change ourselves for better as we are becoming more and more mindful about all our day-to-day activities. Moreover, Upul’s great ability to speak to our hearts and practical and philosophical way of presenting Dhamma has enormous power to make us practice Meditation in a joyful manner.
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Sit On Your Own Chair - Upul Nishantha Gamage
Sit on Your Own Seat
Talk given by
Upul Nishantha Gamage
On June 04, 2012 (Poson Full-moon Day)
At Nilambe Buddhist Meditation Centre
Transcribed and translated by
Chamara Illeperuma
Published by
Nilambe Deshana Publication Board
Nilambe Buddhist Meditation Centre
Nilambe, Sri Lanka
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1. What is human life?
2. Be an outsider if you want to change the inside
3. Seeing emptiness
4. Suffering is a dream
5. In between happiness and unhappiness
6. Buddhism = Heartfulness + Mindfulness
7. No colour no shape
8. Living with awareness & Watching thoughts and emotions
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On the way of the journey started with your mind, you let the feelings and defilements known as the passenger drive you around while you sit in the back. It is only the mindfulness that can hand over the steering wheel back to you. Therefore, practise meditation to sharpen your mindfulness and thereby to become the pilot of your own life.
Upul Nishantha Gamage
Table of Contents
1. Priceless peaceful joy
2. Needs and wants
3. Three corners of the triangle
4. Involvement of others
5. Be watchful!
6. The real bitterness
7. The three reasons
8. Seeing the mind
9. No prior notice
10. Falling off the world’s end
11. The real miracle
12. Discoloured thinking
13. The hidden culprit
14. Deception of feelings and defilements
15. Burning inner nature
16. The real friend
1. Priceless peaceful joy
Dear Dhamma friends. All of you have come to Nilambe Buddhist Meditation Centre on this Poson full-moon day and try to experience some relief and mental well-being, as ordinary life is a heavy burden. If you think of yesterday and also tomorrow, you may have fought over time yesterday and will fight over time tomorrow. No matter how much