The Beauty of the Silent Mind
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As long as there is no suffering, our only refuge is the physical world consisting of money, friends, food, medicine and social positions. Dear Dhamma Friends, the physical world is more than enough for life as long as we don not experience any suffering or sorrow or distress or unhappiness.Suffering and unhappiness come piercing through all these physical name-boards and labels, and tap on us.
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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The Beauty of the Silent Mind - Upul Nishantha Gamage
The Beauty of the Silent Mind
Talk given by
Upul Nishantha Gamage
On July 22, 2013 (Esala Full-moon Day)
At Nilambe Buddhist Meditation Centre
Translated and transcribed by
Chamara Illeperuma
Published by
Nilambe Deshana Publication Board
Nilambe Buddhist Meditation Centre
Nilambe, Sri Lanka
For further readings and audios
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ISBN 978 – 955 – 44634 – 6 – 2
Graphic design by Chamara Illeperuma
Copyright © Upul Nishantha Gamage
November 2013
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Previous Publications of Light of Nilambe
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
9. Sit on your own seat
10. Illusion of painful painkillers
11. Disentangling tangles
12. Rain of thoughts
13. No burning
14. Springs from the heart
15. Multiple characters Multiple suffering
16. Save time by investing in time
17. Hatred, love & mettā
18. Acquiring a mind like pure gold
19. Seeing the nature of the World
20. Living inside a world of stories
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Contents
1. The physical world
2. Is only the physical world enough for life?
3. Desolate physical world
4. The non-physical world
5. Happening vs performing
6. Seeing the non-physical suffering
7. The present reality
8. The first step
9. No winners but losers
10. Internal and external conflicts
11. External and internal conflicts
12. Peaceful non-physical world
13. The talkative mind
14. No real freedom of thinking
15. Useless talking in the mind
16. How to stop the talkative mind?
17. The undisturbed silence
18. One and only qualification to see the truth
19. One and only reason for suffering
20. Gold or dust
1. The physical world
Dear Dhamma Friends, you have meditated for a considerable length of time on this full-moon