Sri Wijayaramaya, Fedrica Road, Colombo-6
Webbsite: www.methsaviya.org; Tel/fax: 011 2505088, 0714014467

Meditation is helpful to uplift the day to day life activities, to calm your mind and to increase the concentration. Recent research on meditation conducted by our centre and in many other countries indicates the effect of meditation on curing some mental and physical sicknesses, increasing the IQ level, positive attitude towards the life and sustained happiness.

Methsaviya meditation centre, is a forum comprising of more than 2000 members practicing meditation and established in 2003 by its founder Dr. Chandana Jayaratne with the vision of catering mainly to the young and middle age work force of the country to teach meditation for a better and just society. It also has a research wing. The most recent research was done jointly with the medical Faculty of the Colombo University to find out the effect of meditation on the well being of cancer patients at the Maragama Cancer Hospital.

Some of our services are

Teaching meditation at Sri Wijayaramaya Temple in Colombo-06 on every Sundays from 2-4 p.m.

Conducting 2-7 days retreats at Methsaviya meditation centre in Pilikuttuwa, located some 30 km away from Colombo in a Jungle forest comprising of 99 caves – an archeologically important place where Arrihath Theros did mediation some 1000s of years ago.

English medium programmes are also available for foreign visitors on request a at the Sri Wijayaramaya Temple (one day short programmes and up to 3 weeks long programmes on Buddhist Meditation and also on how to use meditation to improve the quality and benefits of day to day life.). These programmes can be arranged on residentially (up to 20 persons at a time) or non-residential up to 150 people at a time. Subsequent training at a forest monastery or in our Pilikuttuwa meditation centre can be arranged on request.

The research wing conducts research on Buddhist Meditation and very expensive instruments such as GDV (Gas Discharge Visualsation Technique worth US$ 8000) available to measure quantitatively the development of mind and meditation. This is the only centre in Sri Lanka where research on benefits of meditation is being carried out.