{"title":"Author - Van Loon, Louis","description":"\u003cp\u003eLouis van Loon is a founding director of the Buddhist Retreat Centre in Ixopo, South Africa, where he regularly conducts courses and retreats. By profession a consulting engineer, he also lectures on Buddhism at the University of Durham and has participated in numerous conferences dealing with religious perspectives on contemporary ethical problems. The present essay was originally written as a Buddhist contribution to a study programme entitled “Affluence and Poverty and the Word of God,” organised by the Missiological Institute at the Lutheran Theological College in Mapumulo, Natal, South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"1669","title":"Family Planning \u0026 Birth Control","description":"\u003cp\u003eA brief essay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bps.lk\/library-search-select.php?id=bl127\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eView eBook versions for free on the BPS site.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Van Loon, Louis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101516730462,"sku":"BPS:402127","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/402127.jpg?v=1760547777"},{"product_id":"1874","title":"Why the Buddha Did Not Preach","description":"\u003cp\u003eBuddhist reflections on affluence and poverty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bps.lk\/library-search-select.php?id=bl121\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eView eBook versions for free on the BPS site.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Van Loon, Louis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101532754014,"sku":"BPS:402121","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/402121.jpg?v=1760547911"},{"product_id":"6329","title":"Why the Buddha Did Not Preach to a Hungry Man (MP3 Audiobook)","description":"\u003cp\u003e This is an audiobook of Bodhi Leaves No. 121, 'Why the Buddha Did Not Preach to a Hungry Man' 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=bl121\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBPS as a free eBook download\u003c\/a\u003e.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcerpt from \u003cem\u003eWhy the Buddha Did Not Preach to a Hungry Man\u003c\/em\u003e by Louis van Loon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e...what makes one man poor and another rich is not only a question of material possessions, how much they consume or the extent to which they are able to satisfy their cravings. This is determined largely by the manner in which they subjectively experience and psychologically evaluate a feeling of well-being in the context of the environment in which they happen to be situated. Indeed,  poverty  and  affluence  are largely relative terms: quantitatively, a well-to-do member of a primitive Bushman society is still desperately poor compared with an urbanised African who may well own a radio, a guitar, a good suit and some cattle at his homeland kraal. He, however, is appallingly destitute when his lifestyle is contrasted with that of a white artisan who, in turn, envies the earning capacity and everything that goes with it of a Johannesburg business executive who, however, may well earn  and be able to afford only as much as a New York dockworker.\u003c\/p\u003e     \u003chr\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"iframe-container\"\u003e \u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/730607989?quality=1080p\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\"\u003e    \u003cp\u003e\u003cinput type=\"button\" onclick=\"window.location='https:\/\/drive.google.com\/uc?export=download\u0026amp;id=1WwU6A78CgFHeke2Z64OSxUitOkkIpWRW';_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Downloads', 'audiobooks_audio', 'Buddha Did Not Preach to a Hungry Man_SingleMP3']);\" name=\"Add\" value=\"Download Single File (24MB)\" class=\"btn\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e\u003cinput type=\"button\" onclick=\"window.location='https:\/\/drive.google.com\/uc?export=download\u0026amp;id=1cWuRnoPLt8cRI9NABfaF313LMyB0s8Wq';_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Downloads', 'audiobooks_audio', 'Buddha Did Not Preach to a Hungry Man_ChaptersMP3']);\" name=\"Add\" value=\"Download Chapters (24MB)\" class=\"btn\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gcxY552YOSM\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"youtube_link\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eView on YouTube\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e \u003chr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/Audiobooks_c_40.html\"\u003eCheck out our complete audiobook catalog.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eWe are grateful to the volunteers who offered their time and skills creating this product so that we can offer it freely. 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