Pariyatti pilgrims during a recent Along the Path pilgrimage for Vipassana meditators walk from the Sujata Stupa to the Sujata Temple in Bodhgaya to meditate there together for an hour.
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NEW Pariyatti Publication (MPE)
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The Dīgha Nikāya is the first division of the Sutta Piṭaka and consists of thirty-four long discourses, grouped into three vaggas (sections), highlighting many aspects of the Buddha’s teaching, including morality, causality, perfect wisdom, and mindfulness.
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The just-released MPE title Ten Suttas from Dīgha Nikāya, Collection of Long Discourses of the Buddha presents a selection of ten of these suttas: Brahmajāla Sutta, Sāmaññaphala Sutta, Poṭṭhapāda Sutta, Mahānidāna Sutta, Mahāparinibbāna Sutta, Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Sutta, Cakkavatti Sutta, Saṃpasādanīya Sutta, Pāsādika Sutta, and Siṅgāla Sutta. A wide range of topics is covered in this work; it offers a comprehensive overview of the Buddha's teachings on various aspects of the spiritual path, from the nature of reality and the causes of suffering to the cultivation of virtue and the attainment of enlightenment.
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By agreement with the Myanmar Pitaka Association (MPA), formerly known as the Burma Pitaka Association, Pariyatti republishes its books—worldwide—under the MPA Pariyatti Editions (MPE) imprint. The content is generally unchanged, but the paper and binding of the Pariyatti Editions are of a higher quality.
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Other Recent Pariyatti Releases
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As Pariyatti aims to serve people from all backgrounds, we offer our print books and eBooks at affordable prices and provide free PDFs for most titles that we publish. We offer our eBook bundles (with re-flowable formats ePub & Mobi, suitable for most eReaders) at the standard low price of $4.95.
A big thank you to our wonderful eBook volunteers. May your service be of benefit to many!
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Pariyatti Publications are quality prints, with an ergonomic page size, easy-to-read font, and a sturdy spine.
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Many of the titles Pariyatti publishes are set up with Amazon's print-on-demand service, so you may be able to order those directly from Amazon in your country.
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A big thank you to the narrator.
May your service be of benefit to many!
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Excerpt:
Values can be approached from two different standpoints. Most social scientists prefer to take the standpoint that may be called sociological relativism in dealing with questions of value in relation to different societies. The social scientist’s approach does not involve any absolute standard for judging the goodness or badness of the norms upheld by a particular society. The application of such an approach to examine the existing values of a traditional Buddhist society involves merely a description of the social behaviour of its people and a causal explanation of such behaviour.
The subject under investigation in the present discussion is the question of the relationship between Buddhism and changing values. Where doesBuddhism stand in a value-changing world? Here, we have admitted in some sense that we are living in a world in which values are changing. In this connection it may be questioned whether values themselves are changing or whether it is only our beliefs about values that are changing. Imade the point that our beliefs about facts do change. But is there a sense in saying that facts changes?
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Audiobooks for the Global Community
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The Art of Living in Italian, beautifully
read by Andrea Mazza.
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In the Spirit of the Buddha in Spanish, wonderfully
read by Claire Joysmith and Gustavo Them.
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More Resources for the
Global Community
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Voilà des années que les méditants souhaitent comprendre la signification des paroles chantées par S. N. Goenka durant un cours de dix jours. Le joyau serti d’or est la première compilation exhaustive de ces paroles du Dhamma et de leur traduction en français.
En tant qu’enseignant, Goenkaji a toujours accordé une importance capitale à paṭipatti, la pratique, car seule l’expérience de la réalité telle qu’elle est peut purifier l’esprit et soulager de la souffrance. Ceci est le joyau du Dhamma. Cependant, allant de pair avec la pratique de la méditation est pariyatti, le fondement théorique, tel le sertissage en or qui protège un joyau précieux.
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A big thank you to all involved in this project. May your service be of benefit to many!
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🇫🇷 We recently released the French translation of The Gem Set in Gold, 2nd Edition Le joyau serti d'or (Chronological Presentation) in print (soft cover) and a free PDF document. It contains the French translations of the Pāli and Hindi chanting from a ten-day Vipassana meditation course by S.N. Goenka.
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Sunday, October 5
8:00am PT/11:00am ET/8:30pm IST
Part Three:
Building a Sustainable Daily Practice
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The recordings of the two recent Pariyatti Presents... events with Dr. Paul R. Fleishman are now available for streaming and download. The events were the first two in a series; two new events have been scheduled for October.
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Sunday, October 19
8:00am PT/11:00am ET/8:30pm IST
Part Four:
Living As a Meditator in the Confusing, Pressured, and Tumultuous World
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Dr. Fleischman is a retired psychiatrist and author, who was appointed by our late teacher S.N. Goenka as Vipassana teacher with the particular assignment to communicate with professionals and academics in the West. Using language and concepts derived from psychology, biology and medicine, Dr. Fleischman shines light on Vipassana as a culturally universal and nonsectarian path. He speaks and writes in his own voice, informed by science, religious studies, and poetry.
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As usual, the events are free to attend; registration is needed for each event separately to instantly receive the Zoom ID, link, and password. The event will last for about an hour and a half and consists of a presentation and a Q&A session. Questions will be collected and selected from the audience present.
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What attendees said about the first two events:
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"[I really liked] Dr. Fleischman’s clarity of response. Also, he made it relevant to the divided world we now find ourselves in where I find conversations with family at times tense."
"It was informative and gave insights on topics that I’ve usually been uptight about since I began practice in 2022. The questions answered around topic of dietary choices, celibacy, anger, suppression, and more were approached in a very real raw authentic way that was helpful. It felt human, unlike the very strict approach."
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"Paul always helps me by shining a light on the Path..."
"Paul is always so generous with his answers, so clear and forthright, and highly inspiring."
"There is much gratitude to have, once again, the opportunity to listen to his clear words, middle-path views, his knowledge, the simplicity of his answer to such complexities brought forward and his spontaneous replies to questions of interest to us as meditators."
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"Given this book is in itself such a compendium of wisdom gathered and honed by Paul (and by Susan too) through decades, the actual questions Kory posed were focal points that maximized the possibility of addressing core issues broached in the talks and in this amazing book. I appreciated fully the way Kory made it all meaningful at every turn, acknowledging what Paul said when adequate and complementing when appropriate. It was an apparently seamless interaction, although so much thought and also Metta was surely invested in all of this process."
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Upcoming Dates
Course-end Sales at our Onalaska location
We open our doors in Onalaska on days that courses end at Dhamma Kuñja.
Part Three:
Building a Sustainable Daily Practice
Sunday, October 5
8:00am PT/11:00am ET/8:30pm IST
Part Four:
Living As a Meditator in the Confusing, Pressured, and Tumultuous World
Sunday, October 19
8:00am PT/11:00am ET/8:30pm IST
Introductory Workshop (15 days), California, USA 🇺🇸
August 7–24, 2025 (waitlist)
November 5–26, 2025
February 24–March 17, 2026
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Donations: Either one-time or monthly pledge
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Pariyatti is a charitable, non-profit, educational support system for the Dhamma community. Pariyatti exists because of funds donated by supporters.
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Fact: Did you know that Pariyatti publishes resources under five different imprints: BPS Pariyatti Editions (BPE), Pariyatti Press (PP), Vipassana Research Publications (VRP), MPA Pariyatti Editions (MPE), and Pariyatti Digital Media?
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