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    Suffering Is a Dream
    Suffering Is a Dream
    Suffering Is a Dream
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    Suffering Is a Dream

    By Upul Nishantha Gamage

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    Just clearly see the craving mind that arises before we do or say or buy something and go somewhere. Afterwards, we go behind that craving. We go after accomplishing, satisfying and fulfilling that craving or the desire. We go behind the desire or the desire goes in front of us. We may be going to get friendly or angry with somebody, buy something from a shop, sell something, look at something, and eat something or whatever. See clearly the presence of craving before all three actions in life; thinking, talking and bodily movement. The desire first goes to the supermarket followed by us. The desire goes a lot faster than us. If the desire had not gone to the supermarket, we would not have gone there. The desire goes to the cinema hall before us. If the desire had not gone to the cinema hall, we would not have gone there. It is the same when you go to meet a person. When the desire goes to a particular place we are compelled to go. It is very difficult to resist doing something when the desire arises in the mind. If the desire has arisen to talk, it is difficult not to talk. If the desire has arisen not to talk, it is difficult to talk. As the desire is part of us and it has already left us, the remaining part is compelled to go behind it. Nobody can go in front of the desire. Nobody can say that he/she is in front of the desire. There are so many desires in front of us. After fulfilling a particular desire, we may say that no other desire is left. However, no sooner we go passing that bend, we get to see many more desires ahead. At every moment, all of us are miles behind the desire. As we do not like this distance, we keep running to get close to the desire.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUpul Nishantha Gamage
    Release dateJun 11, 2017
    ISBN9781370150717
    Suffering Is a Dream
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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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      Suffering Is a Dream - Upul Nishantha Gamage

      Suffering Is A Dream

      Talk given by our Teacher

      Upul Nishantha Gamage

      At Nilambe Buddhist Meditation Centre

      On January 08, 2012 (Full-moon Day)

      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

      Graphic design by www.artenlighten.com

      Copyright © Upul Nishantha Gamage

      April 2012

      Printer: Nethwin Printers, Peradeniya

      ISBN – 978 955 190 405

      Dhamma Dana

      for our beloved mother and grandmother

      Emilia Klein, Idstein/Ts, Germany

      May she attain Nibbana

      With love and gratitude

      Julia C. Boettcher

      Bremen

      Germany

      See the craving in front of yourself

      See that you are running after the desires.

      Look at the running desires.

      Meditate to awaken from the unawake sleep,

      thereby to end the suffering.

      Upul Nishantha Gamage

      CONTENTS

      1. Changes beyond our desires

      2. Let’s identify meditation in a simple way

      A journey with the physical body

      The aging process

      The journey of the mind

      3. Be standstill-The first meditation

      4. Cultivating the mind-The second meditation

      5. The insight meditation-The third meditation

      The fourth journey: the craving mind

      1. Changes beyond our desires

      Dear Dhamma friends. Today is the first full-moon day of 2012 or the full-moon day of January, a month considered to be cold. Time is not that important, whether it is the first, the second or the last full-moon day of a year. The climatic condition, whether it is cold or warm, is not important either. These things just come and go. Even the year comes and goes. All the new things become old, coldness goes away and a full- moon day turns into a new-moon day. Though all these things change externally, the concept or the theory or the norms related to all these changes are within us. Whether we are aware or unaware of these concepts, they are in operation within us. Therefore, we too change and are being subjected to changes. We say at times with pride that I do not change or we do not change. At the same time, we try not to change and also try our best to keep things without any changes. Likewise, we request or plead for the others not to change. We also impose rules on the others asking them not to change. However, everybody and everything change beyond all our rules, desires and expectations. Actually there is nothing good or bad

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