Nibbāna: The Mind Stilled (Sinhalese: නිවනේ නිවීම, Nivanē nivīma) is the translation of a series of 33 sermons delivered in Sinhala by Venerable Bhikkhu Katukurunde Ñāṇananda during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

[1] Venerable Ñāṇananda had already written four books during the early phase of his monk’s life at Island Hermitage, Dodanduwa.

They were Concept and Reality in Early Buddhist Thought,[2] Samyutta Nikaya – An Anthology (Part 2),[3] Ideal Solitude[4] and The Magic of the Mind.

[5] He came under the tutelage of the late venerable Matara Sri Ñāṇārama Mahathera when he shifted to Nissarana Vanaya Hermitage in 1972.

Bhikkhu Ñāṇananda has followed a line of interpretation that highlights the psychological import of the term nibbāna, drawing out at the same time the deeper philosophical implications.