Venerable Sir, an important problem that I have. Though my mind is generally calm, composed and luminous, I lose my temper in ordinary day to day problems and find it difficult to control myself. Then I go on ranting and raving like an uneducated crazy woman. Because of this trait I irritate my family members, …
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Sep 25
Ideal Solitude – Ven Kaṭukurunde Ñāṇananda Thero
Ideal Solitude An Exposition of the Bhaddekaratta Sutta – Bhikkhu Ñåˆånanda The Bhaddekaratta Sutta of the Majjhima Nikåya (No. 131) consists of a “summary” (uddesa) in four verses and an “exposition” (vibhaga) dealing with some doctrinal points of considerable psychological and ethical import…. Let one not trace back the past Or yearn for the future-yet-to-come. That which is past is left behind Unattained is …
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Jul 28
The Miracle of Contact – Ven Kaṭukurunde Ñāṇananda Thero
The Dhamma that the Teacher of the Three Worlds, the fully Enlightened Fortunate One placed before the world is one that goes against the current. That Dhamma which flows against the pervert and narrow current of becoming is the massive body of water called ‘Dhammasota’ that takes one towards the cessation of becoming. The worldlings …
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Jun 10
Consciousness and Name-and-Form (Sermon 03) – Bhikkhu K. Ñāṇananda
In order to understand properly the Law of Dependent Arising, one has to have a deep insight into the inter-dependence between consciousness and name-and-form. In the last two sermons we compared this inter-dependence to a whirlpool. The deepest point in a whirlpool is the abyss. The riddle verse we have taken up today as the …
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Dec 10
Sankalpa saha yatharthaya – Ven Kaṭukurunde Ñāṇananda Thero
සංකල්පයන්ගේ ස්වභාවය පිළිබඳ විග්‍රහය බුදුදහමෙහි එන අනාත්ම ධර්මයෙහිම එක වැදගත් අංශයකි. බුදුදහමට අනුව ආත්මයක් පිළිබද අදහස පැනනගිනුයේ අත්දැකීම් අවබෝධ කර ගැනීමේ දී මූලික වන වැරදි ආකල්පයක් හේතුකොට ගෙන ය. මේ අවිද්‍යාව බොහෝ දුරට ලෝක ව්‍යවහාරයට අයත් වචන හා සංකල්ප තුළ සියුම් ලෙස ගැබව පවතී…….. බුදුරජුන් පහල වීමට පෙර ඉර්ෂීහු දෘෂ්ඨි හැට දෙකක් ම දුටු නමුත් කිසිවෙක් …
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Nov 17
The Law of Dependent Arising (02) – Bhikkhu K. Ñāṇananda
The Fully Enlightened Buddha made known to the world that Saṁsāric existence is a cyclic process in that it is a going the same round again and again. That indeed is the true meaning of the term ‘saṁsāra vaṭṭa’. The two significant words ‘saṁsarana’ and ‘nissaraṇa’ are also suggestive of a going round and an …
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Oct 14
The Law of Dependent Arising (01) – Bhikkhu K. Ñāṇananda
The Buddha, soon after his enlightenment, reflected on the depth of the Dhamma he had realized. He saw two points in this Dhamma that transcends logic (atakkāvacara), which it is difficult for the worldlings immersed in defilements to see. One is the Law of Dependent Arising (Paṭicca Samuppāda) or conditionality (idappaccayatā). The other is Nibbāna – the stilling of …
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Oct 01
Sermons on Nibbāna 10 – Ven Kaṭukurunde Ñāṇananda Thero
Similarly, by taking to be real name-and-form, which is only an image reflected on consciousness leading to a personality view, sakkāyadiṭṭhi, both eternalism and nihilism, built on the two views of existence and non-existence, tended towards two extremes. Under the influence of self love, eternalism took up the view that there is a self, and looked …
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Sep 17
Paticca Samupada Sermon No. 7 – Ven Kaṭukurunde Ñāṇananda Thero
‘yaṁ bhikkhave sadevakassa lokassa samārakassa sabrahmakassa sassamanabrāhmaniyā pajāya sadevamanussāya idaṁ saccanti upanijjhāyitaṁ tadamariyānaṁ etaṁ musāti yathābhūtaṁ sammappaññāya sudiṭṭhaṁ – ayaṁ ekānupassanā’ – 12 Dvayatānupassanā suttaṃ – Khuddakanikāye, Suttanipātapāḷi, 3. Mahāvaggo “Monks, whatever that has been pondered over as ‘This is true’ by the world with its gods, Māras and Brahmas with its recluses and Brahmins, that by …
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Aug 12
Paticca Samupada Dharma(1st Volume) – Ven Kaṭukurunde Ñāṇananda Thero
පටිච්ච සමුප්පාද ධර්මය (පළමු වෙළුම) – පූජ්‍ය කටුකුරුන්දේ ඤාණනන්ද හිමි තිලෝගුරු භාග්‍යවත් සම්මා සම්බුදුරජාණන් වහන්සේ සම්මා සම්බෝධිය ලබා ගෙන, ඒ පර්‍යංකයේම විමුක්ති සුවය විඳිමින් සත්දිනක් වැඩ සිටියා. ඒ සත්දින අවසානයේ දී ඒ තුන් යම් රැයම පටිච්චසමුප්පාද ධර්මය හොඳින් මෙනෙහි කල බව උදාන පාළියේ බෝධිවග්ගයේ එන මුල් සූත්‍ර තුනේ සදහන් වෙනවා. තමන් වහන්සේ ඒ පටිච්චසමුප්පාද ධර්මය ඒ …
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