Meditation

මෙවන් සතුටක් වෙන කොයින් ද - බෞද්ධයෙකු වශයෙන් සොයා යන අවසානික පරමාර්ථය අත්පත් කර ගැනීමට අනුගමනය කළ යුතු පිළිවෙත මෙමගින් විවරණය කොට ඇත. රැුස් කරන ලෝකය තුළ අස් කරන ජීවිතයක් අභ්‍යන්තරයෙන්ම අත්හරින ලද නම්‍යශීලී පෞරුෂයක අනම්‍යශීලී ගුණ වගාව දියුණු කරගන්නා ආකාරයත් සවිස්තරව දක්වා ඇත.

ධ්‍යාන මගඵල හා නිවන - ධ්‍යාන වැඞීමේ අවශ්‍යතාවය හා ධ්‍යාන වඩන හැටි අත්දැකීම් තුළින් පෙන්වා දෙන සුවිශේෂී සදහම් ග‍්‍රන්ථයකි. 

ආනාපානසති භාවනාව -ත‍්‍රිපිටක ධර්මය ආරක්‍ෂා කරගෙන ආ මහා සංඝරත්නය විසින් ධර්මය පවත්වා ගෙන යාමේ පහසුව පිණිස සංක්ෂිප්ත කරන ලද කොටස් බුද්ධ ජයන්ති ත‍්‍රිපිටක ග‍්‍රන්ථ මාලාවෙන් උපුටා ගන්නා ලද අතර එහි සඳහන් වචනයකුදු වෙනස් නොකර සංක්ෂිප්ත කරන ලද තැන් පමණක් සම්පූර්ණ කර තේරුම් ගැනීමේ පහසුව සඳහා සිංහල පරිවර්තනය බෙදා කොටස්කර දක්වා ඇත.

සතිපට්ඨාන විපස්සනා (සතිමත්බව තුළින් අවබෝධය) -  Satipatthana Vipassana : Insight Through Mindfulness නම් කෘතියෙහි සිංහල පරිවර්තනයක් වන මෙහි විපස්සනා භාවනාව පිළිබද ගැඹුරු කරුණු බොහෝ දෙනාට තේරුම් ගතහැකි ලෙස සරල බසින් ඉතා කෙටියෙන් පැහැදිලි කර ඇත. 

දේවත්වයෙන් ප‍්‍රභාව කරා -  ''The Way It Is''  නම් කෘතියෙහි සිංහල පරිවර්තනයයි. සසර ගමනෙහි අවසානය දැකීම සදහා අටුවාචාරීන් වහන්සේලා මෙතෙක් පෙන්වා දී තිබූ වළ, ගොඩැලි කටුකොහොල් සහිත දීර්ඝ ගමන සත්‍යාවබෝධයෙන් ඉතා පහසු ගමනක් කරගන්නා සැටි, සුමේධ හිමියෝ මනස්කාන්ත ලෙස පෙන්වා දෙති. 

ගොඩවල් පහක් අල්ලා ගැනීම - පංචස්කන්ධය පිළිබඳව කරන ලද විග්‍රහයකි. මෙහි ගොඩවල් 5ක් යනුවෙන් අදහස් කරනු ලබන්නේ ස්කන්ධයෝ පසට ය. ගැඹුරු වූ ධර්ම න්‍යායක් වන එය ධර්මයේ සඳහන් සියුම් කරුණු තේරුම් කර දෙමින්, මාතෘකා 27ක් ඔස්සේ උපාදානස්කන්ධයෝ නිවනට බාධාවන හැටි මෙහිදී සාකච්ඡා කරනු ලබයි..

The Experience Of Nothingness - With this, the final volume of a trilogy, Nisargadatta clearly demonstrates that logic and spirituality do not necessarily stand in opposition to one another. In a chapter after which this book has been titled, Nisargadatta relentlessly pursues a logical argument with his visitor to its very end, showing that until there is transcendence of all thought, logic remains fully valid and should be pursued rigorously.

Entering The Stream To Enlightenment - The study presents a definition for the 'supramundane fruit' of the path and an alternate framework to discuss and evaluate Theravada Buddhist religious experiences. It then uses this framework to address some longstanding debates around the Theravada path and its fruits, thus bringing experience back to the centre stage of these debates.

The Heart Of Buddhist Meditation - The most suitable handbook for all Buddhist meditators - outlines the basic elements of Buddhist meditation buttressed by appropriate textual reference where necessary and  details of mindfulness meditation given clearly so as to enable anyone to start meditating on his own.

Living Experiances of Enlightenmant - This book highlights the experiences one is likely to come by in meditation.

Meditation In Practice Extracts From The Sessions - Book provides some guidance on meditation techniques.

Manual Of Insight Mahasi Sayadaw - A clear, simple meditation method on practising mindfulness for insight, which takes us to our goal of liberation, the end of all suffering.

Practical Insinght Meditation - One of Burma's outstanding contemporary meditation masters gives basic instructions on the practice of insight meditation (vipassana), followed by a brief account of the development of insight.

Meditation (Ajahn Chah) - This compilation consists of five talks and three question and answer sessions by the renowned Thai Forest Tradition teacher Venerable Ajahn Chah. The selected talks mainly deal with the topic OF meditation, both tranquillity meditation as well as insight meditation. Ajahn Chah discusses the beginning steps as well as the higher stages and this book is a source of inspiration foar beginners as well as serious practitioners.

Walking Meditation - This booklet contains essays on walking meditation by three Buddhist teachers.

Mindfulness Of Breathing - This book brings together the most important suttas from the Pali Canon and extracts from the commentaries dealing with anapanasati—the meditative practice of mindfulness of breathing.

The Story of Meditation - Patanjali's Ashtanga Yoga is no mean assignment to identify with! It took the author over twenty years to unbolt (she hopes) what the sutras were trying to converse with her. In this book she gives personalities inherent in each of the seven chakras in the spinal cord. She weaves a story around individuals at different levels  of human evolution while on a spiritual journey. 

A Beautful Way Of Living - This book consists of a number of talks and discussions by Godwin given at different locations around the world. They have been compiled and edited as an introduction and aid to the practice of meditation.

The Progress Of Insight - In this treatise the Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw charts the entire way of mindfulness up to its culmination, the emphasis being on the advanced stages of the Path. The Burmese meditation master shows their distinctive features of these stages in great clarity, illustrating them with descriptions of actual meditative practice. The treatise was composed in the Pali language and was translated into English by Venerable Nyanaponika Thera.

Buddhist Meditation And Nirvana - The meditations of the Buddhists were not simple reflections on abstract subjects, but trances of self-hypnotism as well, in which they tried to bring, not merely the conceptions of the mind, but also the emotions and feelings of the heart to rarefied generalizations.

JUST SEEING - In eloquent, expressive language this book explores in depth the Buddha's significant teaching, "When seeing, just see; when hearing, just hear," as it applies to the practice of insight meditation as taught by Mahasi Sayadaw. Along the way, the book touches on the two kinds of reality-ultimate and conventional-expounded in the Abhidhamma. The author explains these two realities through the example of a pointillist painting of Seurat that can be viewed in two ways. In addition, there are meditation instructions for beginners, an appendix on the perceptual process as described in Buddhist metaphysics, and a crossword puzzle of Pali terms.

Jhanas In Theravada Buddhism - This booklet, a condensed version of Bhante Gunaratana's treatise, The Path of Serenity and Insight, outlines the role of jhana (meditative absorption) in Theravada Buddhist meditation. The author's perspective is based mainly on the commentaries to the Pali Canon-principally Buddhaghosa's Visuddhimagga (The Path of Purification). The formless jhanas and the role of jhana in relation to the noble disciple are also discussed. Many of the insights offered by the book will be of value to those practicing vipassana- and breath meditation.

Satipatthana - “This book helps to fill what has long been a glaring gap in the scholarship on Early Buddhism, offering us a detailed textual study of the Satipatthana Sutta, the foundational Buddhist discourse on meditation practice

The Way To Ultimate Calm - Contains eight full discourses by one of the greatest Burmese meditation masters of this century (originally issued in the Wheel series), as well as shorter talks and a 40-page account of U Ba Khin's connections with Webu Sayadaw.