Upul Nishantha Gamage: 23 books

What we are trying to do is to develop insight, to develop skills, not to have only pleasant and calm experiences. So these are the insights I have in mind, because when you are here, if you develop these insights, if you develop these tools, then when unpleasant emotions arise in everyday life you...

Regardless of when and where humans lived, they suffered the most mentally, because a human mind can create suffering limitlessly. Physical suffering such as hunger and thirst has limits. However, suffering created by the mind has no limits. No other being has the ability to create problems in the mind like a human being. Such creativity in the human mind is used for creating problems.

As long as there is no suffering, our only refuge is the physical world consisting of money, friends, food, medicine and social positions. Dear Dhamma Friends, the physical world is more than enough for life as long as we don not experience any suffering or sorrow or distress or unhappiness.Suffering...

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.

Mettā (loving kindness) is a feeling that goes beyond love. Mettā does not split a person into two halves: good and bad, beautiful and ugly, educated and uneducated, wealthy and poor and so on. Mettā is the ability to live without expecting anything in return without getting angry no matter what...

What is this “inner nature?” Have we seen such an “inner nature?” Is it merely some words? Pay attention for a moment to this “inner nature?” Do you feel the “inner nature?” If you do not feel the inure nature, does it mean that life is only about external things-what we eat, drink, dress, do and so on? Is that all about life?

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,...

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...

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...