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    No Burning
    No Burning
    No Burning
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    No Burning

    By Upul Nishantha Gamage

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    Meditation comprises a number of talents, which require development, cultivation, practice and usage. This entire activity or the process is known as meditation. It includes planting, cultivating, practicing and using some talents which are instrumental in helping us to live peacefully. It is our duty and responsibility to lead a peaceful life. It is nobody else’s responsibility, but ours.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUpul Nishantha Gamage
    Release dateJul 24, 2017
    ISBN9781370091683
    No Burning
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    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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      No Burning - Upul Nishantha Gamage

      No Burning

      Talk given by

      Upul Nishantha Gamage

      On November 27, 2012 (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

      www.nilambe.net

      www.nilambe-deshana.net

      For further information

      upulnilambe@yahoo.com

      ISBN 978 – 955 – 54570 – 3 – 3

      Copyright © Upul Nishantha Gamage

      November 2013

      Printer:

      Sanduni Offset Printers (Pvt.) Ltd.

      No. 4/1, Sarasavi Uyana Good Shed Road,

      Sarasavi Uyana, Peradeniya

      Tel./Fax 081-2387777

      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

      www.nilambe.net/light-of-nilambe.php

      FOR INFORMATION ON OBTAINING OR SPONSORING

      ANY LIGHT OF NILAMBE BOOKLETS PLEASE

      CONTACT: upulnilambe@yahoo.com

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      Dhamma Dāna

      In memory of

      My beloved parents

      May this merit be conducive for them to

      attain Nibbana!

      With Love & Gratitude

      Shema Illeperuma

      A fire may set in at any time and spread surrounding you. If you are fully awake, no fire can get close to you. If you are inside the cover or the shelter of mindfulness, fires like anger and desire can't burn you down to ashes. If you are fully extinct, it is impossible to set fire, even with gasoline, as no spark of fire is left. Therefore, give the first priority of your life to mindfulness. Be mindful in every moment!

      CONTENTS

      1. Where is meditation?

      2. Our responsibility

      3. Meeting yourself

      4. Going with the flow

      5. Unfulfilled list

      6. Light in between

      7. Two rare incidences

      8. The truth about happiness

      9. Clueless sleeper

      10. Surrounded by

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