Dear Venerables and Dhamma friends,
Recently I finished re-formatting Ven. Katukurunde Ñāṇananda’s book Nibbāna - The Mind Stilled, aka the 33 Nibbāna Sermons (Nivane Niveema, නිවනේ නිවීම).
The ebooks are available below. Apart from re-formatting for readability, I also added SuttaCentral links to the sutta references where possible.
Hard-copies are possible via print-on-demand, see the information at the link.
This book was a discovery for me in Sri Lanka. It completely changed my understanding of nāma-rūpa, sense contact and bhava.
I feel I should have read it much earlier, it would have straightened my views with explanations based on the primary sources, not just how we muddle it up in tea room discussions.
The talks were given to a group of meditative monks, and his motivation was not a scholarly discussion, but to enhance their meditation practice and clear up wrong views.
Ven. Anālayo explains that he typed up the original transcript from tape recordings when he met Ven. Ñāṇananda in Sri Lanka.
The book I read had very difficult to read formatting, so I got in touch with the KNSSB publication group in Sri Lanka and I started creating a better formatted ebook version.
There are recordings of the sermons in Sinhala. At about the one minute mark, there’s a part that might sound familiar.
Nivane Niveema|Most Ven Katukurunde Nyanananda thero|01 - YouTube
