{"product_id":"6574","title":"Radical Therapy by Lily de Silva (MP3 Audiobook)","description":"\u003cp\u003e This is an audiobook of Bodhi Leaves No. 123 by Lily de Silva, \u003ci\u003eRadical Therapy: Buddhist Precepts in the Modern World\u003c\/i\u003e narrated by Jim Swift.  The print edition can be found in the Pariyatti Edition of \u003ca href=\"\/collected-bodhi-leaves-vol-5\"\u003eCollected Bodhi Leaves Vol. V\u003c\/a\u003e. The \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.bps.lk\/library-search-select.php?id=bl123\"\u003eeBook of the individual booklet\u003c\/a\u003e is available from the Buddhist Publication Society (BPS) website.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcerpts:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The Five Precepts are designed to discipline and purify the three avenues of human action-body, speech, and mind. Abstention from killing, stealing, and sexual misconduct disciplines bodily action. Abstention from false speech disciplines verbal action. It is also expected under this fourth precept that one should refrain from slander, abusive speech and frivolous talk. The dual discipline of body and speech has a salutary effect on the purity of mind, though complete mental purity can be brought about effectively only through \u003cem\u003ebhavana\u003c\/em\u003e, mental culture or meditation. The fifth precept against the use of intoxicants attempts to safeguard the mental faculty from degenerating through a bad habit. A man under the influence of intoxicants has no control over himself, and thus is easily tempted to transgress the four other precepts as well. ...\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Conflicts, terrorism and wars have to be understood as the external manifestations of the internal disharmony of man. Man thinks violent thoughts, therefore there is violence in society. The corrupt mind brings suffering in its wake. This is an eternal truth. If happiness is what we yearn for, we have to entertain wholesome thoughts and act with wholesome thoughts; then happiness will follow effortlessly like a shadow. To train the mind for wholesome thoughts and healthy attitudes, our physical and verbal activities must be disciplined, and this is exactly what the Five Precepts do. They control our destructive potentials and humanise the predatory animal in us.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003chr\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"iframe-container\"\u003e \u003ciframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/866953720?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=10ImY70uzkx_lMxXDLL3hcYBNe46qPURI';\"\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=10H5GQKhuruNvJBp-A2vJiJivwYMqhFJA';\"\u003eDownload Chapters (17MB)\u003c\/button\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YEKGI3Sj4-I\" 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":"De Silva, Lily","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101771534430,"sku":"703123","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/703123.jpg?v=1760548915","url":"https:\/\/store.pariyatti.org\/products\/6574","provider":"Pariyatti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}