Be an Outsider if You Want to Change The Inside
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It is easier to fight but difficult to win. Especially if you fight against your own mind, it will be a never ending fight. As you know there are countless thoughts passing through your mind, so you have to fight against every single thought, but still the mind can produce thoughts again and again, there is no full stop, even on weekends, on holidays mind is thinking, mind produces thoughts, no vacation for the mind, no holidays even during the sleep. So, “how do you fight against something like the mind?
Unfortunately most of the meditators, consciously or unconsciously, become fighters and they think that is the way to meditate, that is the way to practice meditation by fighting against them. They are very innocent, most of the meditators are very innocent, they do not kill a single mosquito, they do not kill a single leech, they are very innocent for others but for themselves very hard, very tough. Poor mind, poor body!
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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Be an Outsider if You Want to Change The Inside - Upul Nishantha Gamage
BE AN OUTSIDER IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE THE INSIDE
Talk given by our Teacher
Upul Nishantha Gamage
At Nilambe Buddhist Meditation Centre
Published by
Nilambe Buddhist Meditation Centre
Nilambe. Sri Lanka
For further readings and audios
www.nilambe.net
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For further info
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Graphic design by www.artenlighten.com
English revised by Ms. Kanthi Liyanage
Copyright © Upul Nishantha Gamage
March 2012
Printer: Ruchira offset printers
ISBN: 978-955-5420-0-0
Table of Contents
1. Looking for positive changes
2. The highest miracle
3. The sleep cannot change us
4. Concentration meditation
5. A beautiful story
6. The ego becomes a great fighter
7. The muddy water
8. The wandering mind
9. The tricky mind
10. Neither mind, no mind
11. An experience
12. Awareness meditation
13. The wandering mind as a meditation object
14. The gap between the in-breath and the out-breath
1. Looking for positive changes
Dear friends, as meditators we are looking for some positive changes. If we are totally happy about our present state, if we are totally happy about our current situation, then we are not here, then we would not become meditators and we wouldn’t do anything. We do everything in our lives to make a change, to change something, we want to change others, we try to change others, we try to change the society, the system, the country, the world, and we want to change everything. We put a lot of effort; spend so much of time, energy, money, power to change the world, to change others.
But we didn’t come here for that, at least directly not for that, maybe indirectly we like/want to change ourselves, we like/want to change our lives or to change our mind. That is why we are here. When