{"product_id":"1818","title":"Scale of Good Deeds, The","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 34-page booklet presents a translation and commentary on the short \u003cstrong\u003eVelama Sutta\u003c\/strong\u003e in which the Buddha provides a vivid outline of the relative degrees of merit that can be acquired by performing different kinds of good actions. 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. Please note that items which are out of stock will not be re-stocked.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen an individual Wheel is out of stock, it can be found within the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.pariyatti.org\/search.asp?keyword=collected%20wheel\"\u003eCollected Wheel Publications (BPS edition)\u003c\/a\u003e. There are 29 Collected Wheel Publications (BPS edition), each containing 15 individual Wheels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePariyatti has also started publishing the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/store.pariyatti.org\/collected-wheel-publications-bpe\"\u003eCollected Wheel Publications (Pariyatti edition)\u003c\/a\u003e, which also include 15 individual Wheels each. We have completed Volumes 1 through 13 (available in both print and e-book versions), and the remaining volumes will be released in the coming years. 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":"$75","offer_id":42108803055710,"sku":"BPS:403372","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"$100","offer_id":42108803088478,"sku":"BPS:403372","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"$50","offer_id":42108803121246,"sku":"BPS:403372","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"$25","offer_id":42108803154014,"sku":"BPS:403372","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"$15","offer_id":42108803186782,"sku":"BPS:403372","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"$10","offer_id":42108803219550,"sku":"BPS:403372","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"$5","offer_id":42108803252318,"sku":"BPS:403372","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"$0","offer_id":42108803285086,"sku":"BPS:403372","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/403372_5981d6f0-03b1-4903-9e45-408d4a899507.jpg?v=1760547873","url":"https:\/\/store.pariyatti.org\/products\/1818","provider":"Pariyatti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}