{"title":"Author - Khema, Ayya","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"2458","title":"Visible Here and Now","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThis practical commentary on one of the most important scriptures of the Pali canon will provide essential sustenance for Buddhist practitioners. Ayya Khema is a mountain of strength, encouragement, and tough love as she pours out down-to-earth practical instruction on the journey to enlightenment, following the framework set forth in the Samannaphala-sutta, the Buddha's discourse on the rewards of spiritual life.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe sutta� included here in the translation by Bhikkhu Bodhi� contains the Buddha's teachings in response to questions posed by King Ajatasattu. Why, the king asked, should we give up the satisfactions of worldly life and devote ourselves to meditation? What are the tangible benefits to be gained from following the Buddha's way? In answering this question, the Buddha provides a compact synopsis of the entirety of the spiritual path, and Ayya Khema expands on this with her characteristic approach� simple, direct, experiential, and loving.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAn important aspect of the sutta is an account of the eight meditative absorptions, or jhanas� states of mind that bring joy, serenity, and peace and that open the way to clarity and liberation. Ayya Khema, confidently leads the reader to, through, and beyond the jhanas, following the Buddha's plan. Her words have the effect of inspiring us to roll up our sleeves and get to work so that we may grasp the insights, accomplish the meditative goals, and become enlightened to the highest extent of our talents and efforts.\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Khema, Ayya","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101550055518,"sku":"204925","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/204925.jpg?v=1760548093"},{"product_id":"2541","title":"All of Us","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis booklet, containing transcriptions of twelve talks by the renowned Buddhist nun Ayya Khema, is for all people everywhere who seek liberation from suffering and desire true happiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Buddha taught: \"thereís only one thing I teach: suffering and its end.\" Suffering is not only pain and grief, but all the unsatisfactoriness all of us experience during our lifetime. It is that unfulfilled striving in heart and mind which keeps pushing us in so many directions to find the ultimate satisfaction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen we have realized that all the avenues we have tried have brought us to a dead end, then the time has come to turn to Buddhaís teachings and see for ourselves whether his promise of an end to suffering can be experienced within ourselves and whether true fulfillment is possible. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Khema, Ayya","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101551300702,"sku":"BPS:404521","price":5.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/404521_2ce30cfe-683c-42dd-ba55-0befed6df80b.jpg?v=1760548109"},{"product_id":"1459","title":"Within Our Own Hearts","description":"\u003cp\u003eAyya Khema wrote: \"It was the Buddha's explicit teaching that real peace and happiness cannot be found within worldly conditions. First, they are always changing, but also they do not contain enough depth and profundity to really satisfy the yearning in our hearts for a deep and lasting contentment. This little volume of Dhamma talks is offered here to show a way out of our problems and suffering, to give an idea of the Buddha's way to reach ultimate peace and happiness. If anyone becomes inspired to practice this path of moral conduct, meditation and insight, our world will be so much the better for it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Khema, Ayya","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101740961886,"sku":"BPS:404518","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/Within_20Our_20Own_20Hearts.jpg?v=1760547642"},{"product_id":"6309","title":"An Exhortation and Self-image or Self-knowledge (MP3 Audiobook)","description":"\u003cp\u003e This is an audiobook of Bodhi Leaves No. 105 by Ayya Khema, 'An Exhortation and Self-image or Self-knowledge?' found in the Pariyatti Edition of \u003ca href=\"\/collected-bodhi-leaves-vol-4\"\u003eCollected Bodhi Leaves Vol. IV\u003c\/a\u003e as well as at \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bps.lk\/library-search-select.php?id=bl105\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBPS as a free eBook download\u003c\/a\u003e.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcerpt from \u003cem\u003eAn Exhortation\u003c\/em\u003e by \u003ca href=\"\/ayya-khema\"\u003eAyya Khema\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelf-identification with one s state of being is the great trap. So we must first become aware of the props we use to maintain who we think we are. It begins with:  I m a woman  or  I m a man.  There s strong identification. There s strong support for the ego, for that  I am  is the ego itself talking. Next we identify with our abilities and our knowledge.  This is what I can do  and  This is what I know.  Two further strong supports for the ego.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcerpt from \u003cem\u003eSelf-image or Self-knowledge?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLet go of all self-images, of all ideations, of all hopes and plans. Then you can dwell in this particular moment and no one can take that away from you. It can t disappear, or be broken, or get lost. It just is. 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As long as we cling we cannot see reality. We cannot see reality because clinging is in the way. Clinging colours whatever we believe to be true. Now it is not possible to say  all right, I ll stop clinging.  We can t do that. The process of taking the  me  apart, of not believing any more that this is one whole, is a gradual one. But if meditation has any benefit and success, it must show that first of all there is mind and there is body.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIf we really want to get rid of suffering, completely and totally, then clinging has to go. The spiritual path is never one of achievement; it is always one of letting go. The more we let go, the more there is empty and open space for us to see reality. Because what we let go of is no longer there, there is the possibility of just moving without clinging to the results of the movement. 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