{"title":"Author - Jootla, Susan Elbaum","description":"\u003cp\u003eSusan Elbaum Jootla is an American Buddhist whose previous BPS publications include \u003cem\u003eInspiration from Enlightened Nuns\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Scale of Good Deeds\u003c\/em\u003e. Her lucid writing and adept scholarship are further lit by her strong commitment to practice; her words therefore carry great strength.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"1702","title":"Inspiration from Enlightened Nuns","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this booklet we will be exploring poems composed by the Arahat bhikkhunis or enlightened Buddhist nuns of old, looking at these poems as springs of inspiration for contemporary Buddhists. Most of the poems we will consider come from the Therigatha, a small section of the vast Pali Canon.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e From the poems of the enlightened nuns of the Buddha's time contemporary followers of the Noble Eightfold Path can receive a great deal of instruction, help and encouragement. These verses can assist us in developing morality, concentration and wisdom, the three sections of the path. With their aid we will be able to work more effectively towards eliminating our mental defilements and towards finding lasting peace and happiness. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bps.lk\/library-search-select.php?id=wh349\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eDownload eBook versions for free on the BPS site.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003chr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eListen to streaming audio.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eChapter markers are available for wide screens. You may have to turn your phone to landscape to view them.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cdiv style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"\u003e \u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/554502382?title=0\u0026amp;byline=0\u0026amp;portrait=0\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border: 1px solid #666\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cscript src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"\u003e\u003c\/script\u003e  \u003cdiv style=\"display: flex; flex-direction: column; align-items: center\"\u003e    \u003cp style=\"margin: 10px 0 0\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/_0Mhjcb26tA\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"youtube_link\" sl-processed=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eView on YouTube\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp style=\"margin: 10px 0 0\"\u003eGet the audiobook as separate MP3 chapters.\u003c\/p\u003e     \u003cbutton type=\"button\" onclick=\"window.location.href='https:\/\/drive.google.com\/uc?export=download\u0026amp;id=1EQBNg6f9hjyIId_zuX8hInyaqsDdUaUD';\" name=\"Add\" class=\"btn ga-paul\"\u003eDownload 113MB\u003c\/button\u003e     \u003cbr\u003e     \u003cp style=\"margin: 5px 0 0\"\u003eGet the audiobook as a single, long MP3. \u003c\/p\u003e     \u003cbutton type=\"button\" onclick=\"window.location.href='https:\/\/drive.google.com\/uc?export=download\u0026amp;id=1TMJmae2m25ZaxRC-2dIcU6krs7cWGRWi';\" name=\"Add\" class=\"btn ga-paul\"\u003eDownload 113MB\u003c\/button\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThere are a total of 447 Wheels published by the Buddhist Publication Society (BPS), with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.pariyatti.org\/Wheel-Publications_c_386.html\"\u003e222 titles listed on our website\u003c\/a\u003e. 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Free PDF copies of the Collected Wheel Publication (Pariyatti edition) are also available on our website.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdditionally, you can download free PDF copies of individual titles from the \u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bps.lk\/library_wheels.php\"\u003eBPS website\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jootla, Susan Elbaum","offers":[{"title":"$25","offer_id":42108789227614,"sku":"BPS:403349","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"$50","offer_id":42108789260382,"sku":"BPS:403349","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"$75","offer_id":42108789293150,"sku":"BPS:403349","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"$100","offer_id":42108789325918,"sku":"BPS:403349","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"$15","offer_id":42108789358686,"sku":"BPS:403349","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"$10","offer_id":42108789391454,"sku":"BPS:403349","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"$5","offer_id":42108789424222,"sku":"BPS:403349","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"$0","offer_id":42108789456990,"sku":"BPS:403349","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/403349_d4988502-0272-408f-8d6a-32b51748f417.jpg?v=1760547797"},{"product_id":"1704","title":"Investigation for Insight","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy and large, insight develops slowly and gradually through the careful process of observation, investigation and analysis of phenomena until the ultimate nature that lies behind their apparent, conventional truth is distinctly and indubitably perceived. It is this process known in Pali as \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic; \"\u003edhammavicaya\u003c\/span\u003e (Investigation of Dhamma) and also the closely related one of \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic; \"\u003eyoniso\u003c\/span\u003e-\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic; \"\u003emanasikāra\u003c\/span\u003e (systematic attention) which are examined here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bps.lk\/library-search-select.php?id=wh301\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eView eBook versions for free on the BPS site.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are a total of 447 Wheels published by the Buddhist Publication Society (BPS), with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.pariyatti.org\/Wheel-Publications_c_386.html\"\u003e222 titles listed on our website\u003c\/a\u003e. However, many of these are currently out of stock. 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These deeds are arranged in a scale beginning with the practice of generosity and culminating in the practice of insight into the truth of impermanence. The author illumines the subject from a foundation in Vipassana meditation in the tradition of Sayagyi U Ba Khin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Giving gifts, taking the Refuges, and keeping the Precepts are essential to build the foundation of good kamma. But the way out of the misery of the round of repeated rebirths is to develop a mind sufficiently concentrated to penetrate the ultimate truth. It is by fully comprehending the impermanent, unsatisfactory, and essenceless nature of all things in all the planes of conditioned existence that the final goal, the Deathless, is to be won.\" (p. 29)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan Elbaum Jootla is the author of several other BPS publications including \u003cstrong\u003eInspiration from Enlightened Nuns\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eDana: The Practice of Giving\u003c\/strong\u003e..\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bps.lk\/library-search-select.php?id=wh372\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eView eBook versions for free on the BPS site.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are a total of 447 Wheels published by the Buddhist Publication Society (BPS), with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.pariyatti.org\/Wheel-Publications_c_386.html\"\u003e222 titles listed on our website\u003c\/a\u003e. However, many of these are currently out of stock. 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