Meditation

This book contains two advanced expositions on the development of higher insight knowledge by the renowned Burmese scholar-monk and meditation master Ledi Sayadaw. 

Why and how should we meditate? The answer unfolds as sweetly as ever within the pages of this minor treatise by one of the most eminent meditation masters of the 20th century.

භාවනාවට පුරුදු කළ සිත ඉගෙනුමට අත්වැලකි - කුඩා දරුවන්ගේ දූෂිත නොවූ සිත් සතන් සිතේ ඒකාග‍්‍රතාවය නමින් හදුන්වන භාවනාවට යොමු කරවීමෙන් උසස් ප‍්‍රතිඵල ලැබිය හැකිය. මෙම පොත් පිංච කියවීමෙන් ඔබගේ මෙන්ම ඔබ දූ පුතුන්ගේ මනසෙහි සංවර්ධනයක් මෙන්ම ඉගෙනුමට ද අත්වැලක් සපයා ගත හැක.

බුරුම භාවනා විවේචනය

මෙහෙන් එන්න - විවිධ භාවනා ක්‍රම, භාවනා පුහුණු ආයතන, විවිධ ගුරුවරු, එකට එකක් වෙනස් භාවනා උපදෙස්, මේ ආදියෙන් පිරුණු සංකීර්ණ නගරයකි, වත්මන් බුදු සසුන. ඒ නගරය තුළ රස්තියාදු නොවී, වෙහෙස පීඩා නොගෙන අදාළ ස්ථානයට : අමා මහ නිවනට අපහසුවකින් තොරව ගමන් කිරීමට ඔබට ආරාධනා කරන කෘතියකි.

සිහිනුවණින් කල් ගෙවන්න - බුදුදහම පිළිබඳ අවබෝධය සෑම සමාජ කොට්ඨාසයකටම හා සෑම වයස් කාණ්ඩයකටම ගැළපෙන අයුරින් පැහැදිලි කරදීමට උන්වහන්සේ දැරූ සරල එහෙත් ගම්භීර වූ උත්සාහයත්, ඒ නිසාම එම සමාජ කොට්ඨාසයන් බුදුදහම අවබෝධ කරගැනීමට දරන උත්සාහයත්, පිළිබිඹු කරන හෙයින් ‘Bear Awareness’ කෘතියේ සිංහල පරිවර්තනය වන “සිහිනුවණින් කල් ගෙවන්න” නමැති මෙම කෘතිය සිංහල පාඨකයන් අතට පත්කිරීම බෙහෙවින් කාලෝචිත ය.

ආරෝගයා හෙවත් නීරෝගීකම මිනිසෙකුට ලබාගත හැකි 'පරම ලාභයයි' මෙලෙස බුදු රජාණන් වහන්සේද දේශනා කොට ඇති අතර වර්ථමාන සමාජයේ මිනිසාගේ වැරදි ආහාර රටාව සහ විවිධ ක්‍රියා කාරකම් නිසා ඉතා ඉක්මනින් විවිධ රෝගා බාධක වලට නැඹුරු  වීමේ ඉඩක් පවතී. එම නිසා බොහෝ පුද්ගලයන් මේ හේතුන් නිසා මූලික වශයෙන් සිරුරේ මේ නිරෝගිකම ගැන සැලකිලිමත් වෙයි. 

'සෝවාන් මට්ටමේ -කාමලෝක අත්දැකීම්' මෙම කෘතිය ආර්ය කීර්ති කුමාරසේන මහතා විසින් රචනා කරන ලද කෘතියක් වන අතර දෙහිවල නැදිමාල බෞද්ධ සංස්කෘතික මධ්‍යස්ථානය මගින් මුද්‍රණය කර පාඨක ඔබ අතට පත් වන කෘතියකි.මෙම කෘතිය තුළ බෞද්ධ ඉගැන්වීම  තුළ ඇති ඉතා වටිනා මතෘකා කිහිපයක් වන සූත්‍ර ක්‍රම, දේශනා ක්‍රම, කාම ලෝක, භාවනා හා සතර මහා භූත සහ භූත යන මෙවැනි ඉගැන්වීම් විධි ගණනාවක් පිළිබදව ගවේශණාත්මක ලෙස ඉතා නිරවුල් ආකාරයට කරුණු ගොනු කර ඇති කෘතියක් ලෙස හැදින්විය හැකිය.

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