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    Sit On Your Own Chair
    Sit On Your Own Chair
    Sit On Your Own Chair
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    Sit On Your Own Chair

    By Upul Nishantha Gamage

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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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUpul Nishantha Gamage
    Release dateJun 26, 2017
    ISBN9781370542338
    Sit On Your Own Chair
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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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      Book preview

      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

      For further readings and audios

      www.nilambe.net

      www.nilambe-deshana.net

      For further information

      upulnilambe@yahoo.com

      ISBN 978 – 955 – 54206 – 7 - 9

      Graphic design by Lahiru Naveen Muthukumarana

      Copyright © Upul Nishantha Gamage

      August 2012

      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

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

      FOR INFORMATION ON OBTAINING OR SPONSORING ANY LIGHT OF NILAMBE BOOKLETS PLEASE

      CONTACT: upulnilambe@yahoo.com

      info@nilambe-deshana.net

      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

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