Meditation
An ancient path, carefully restored.
The Nibbana Meditation System was developed by Sri Lanka’s most eminent meditation master, the late Matara Sri Ñānārāma Mahāthera.
This Buddhist meditation system uses samatha (concentration) and vipassanā (insight) techniques combined to allow more intense results than other forms of Buddhist meditation.
It was refined over several decades by the meditation instructor monks of the Nissarana Vanaya meditation monastery in Sri Lanka, which is a meditation “boot camp” for all monks belonging to Sri Lanka’s largest forest monastery tradition, the Kalyāni Yogāsrama Samsthava.
Developing Concentration & Insight
The entire system is broken into 8 individual modules. Each course establishes background knowledge and gives step by step instructions to steadily and progressively develop skills in concentration and insight meditation:
The Nibbana Meditation System:
One of the fascinating benefits of such a modular course system is the fact that you always know where you are. The path in front and behind is mapped out, all you need is to apply yourself to the techniques taught.
You can start, stop and continue to build The “Muscles” of your mind – in your own pace.
You can repeat any course any number of times if you desire. But it also allows you to continue on your own leaving with a set of time and people proven techniques and knowing where you stand.
Personal Experience and Quality of Instruction
The Nibbana Meditation System requires all dedicated instructors to go through the exact same intense training as their future students. It does not matter how many students or centers or courses a place can offer – the main focus lies on quality in experience, actual realization.
We are dedicated to the rational, analytical but also extremely pragmatic approach of our teachers and the example they set. In this regard we give our best to ensure unique quality in training meditation: Both in theory (pariyatti) and practice (patipatti). However, in the spirit of the simile of the raft, to us theory and practice need to go hand in hand. Thus the Nibbana Meditation System is characterized by:
- Repeatable, clearly defined set of instructions
- Independent of any teacher personality
- The system and the results of its application become your teacher
Wonderful, indeed, it is to subdue the mind, so difficult to subdue, ever swift, and seizing whatever it desires. A tamed mind brings happiness
The Buddha, Dhammapada v. 35
