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    No Colour No Shape
    No Colour No Shape
    No Colour No Shape
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    No Colour No Shape

    By Upul Nishantha Gamage

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    Meditation is not only for meditation. In other words, one should not meditate or practise meditation merely to become a meditator. Often, meditation is considered a piece of equipment or a vehicle to be used for seeing the truth. We need to make meditation a vehicle to reach the truth. Meditation is not simply to be standstill.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUpul Nishantha Gamage
    Release dateJun 20, 2017
    ISBN9781370895847
    No Colour No Shape
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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 Colour No Shape - Upul Nishantha Gamage

      No Colour No Shape

      Talk given by

      Upul Nishantha Gamage

      On April 06, 2012 (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 – 6 – 2

      Graphic design by:

      Kolitha Senanayake | www.artenlighten.com

      Copyright © Upul Nishantha Gamage

      July 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 = Mindfulness + Heartfulness

      Coming Next

      8. Living with awareness & Watching thoughts and emotions

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

      CONTACT:

      upulnilambe@yahoo.com

      info@nilambe-deshana.net

      Dhamma Dāna

      Dedicated to my loving husband

      and

      wonderful children

      May you walk in greater faith and spirituality

      by the power of the Dhamma you practise!

      Chamini Siriwardena

      If one tries to retain things that are decaying, perishing, smelling and getting dirty in the mind, it becomes a fountain of so many inner illnesses. Let things come and go as you let the in-breath and out-breath come and go in tranquillity meditation. At that moment, you are free as the sky.

      Upul Nishantha Gamage

      CONTENTS

      1. Physical well-being

      2. The body is on race riots

      3. The trap or bait

      4. The taproot

      5. Fear, anger.........contagious

      6. Same raw materials-different outcomes

      7. Knowing what is being produced

      8. Landslides-everywhere..... in everything.........

      9. Law vs principle

      10.

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