{"product_id":"6499","title":"Coming to Terms With One's Shadow by Ruth Walshe (MP3 Audiobook)","description":"\u003cp\u003e This is a Pariyatti audiobook of Bodhi Leaves No. 77, \"Coming to Terms With One's Shadow\" by Ruth Walshe found in the Pariyatti Edition of \u003ca href=\"\/collected-bodhi-leaves-vol-3\"\u003eCollected Bodhi Leaves Vol. III\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcerpt from \u003cem\u003eComing to Terms With One's Shadow\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'In order to explain the shadow, we must first turn the spotlight onto the discrimination of good and bad which starts off our suffering, followed by craving  the second Noble Truth which in its turn is brought about by our erroneous I-am-I consciousness. I want!  I don t want! I want the good! I don t want the bad! This is outward-bound but exactly the same applies to our emotions too.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAs we grow up in a man-created pattern of ethical conduct, we almost automatically show off the so-called good in us, while we repress the so-called bad. Some of us, naturally, would be more skilled in doing this than others but we all seem to have the same tendencies in this direction. Now this repressed bad in us constitutes what we generally call the shadow. I just call it the bad, because if I were to call it our bad character or our bad personality, I would go counter to our Buddhist belief in \u003cem\u003eanicca\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eanatta\u003c\/em\u003e; in impermanence and non-self. And perhaps as a Buddhist I had better replace the word good by skilled and the word bad by unskilled and talk about our skilled and unskilled reactions to the past and present.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003chr\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"iframe-container\"\u003e \u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/776769497?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; margin-top: 20px\"\u003e    \u003cp\u003e\u003cbutton type=\"button\" class=\"btn\" onclick=\"location.href='https:\/\/drive.google.com\/uc?export=download\u0026amp;id=1r4CgUCvQCNUapzbTStLcaJ2xdd7V754L';\"\u003eDownload Single File (17MB)\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e\u003cbutton type=\"button\" class=\"btn\" onclick=\"location.href='https:\/\/drive.google.com\/uc?export=download\u0026amp;id=1rGdnJ_V5XTp0KloOt43Db6JX9vaCN73_';\"\u003eDownload Chapters (17MB)\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/e1aEVQSBY88\" 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. If you wish to help us record more audiobooks, please email us at \u003ca href=\"mailto:volunteer@pariyatti.org\"\u003evolunteer@pariyatti.org\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    ","brand":"Walshe, Ruth","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101770354782,"sku":"703077","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/703077.jpg?v=1760548849","url":"https:\/\/store.pariyatti.org\/products\/6499","provider":"Pariyatti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}