{"title":"Author - Bodhesako, Samanera","description":"S. Bodhesako was an American Buddhist monk who studied literature and creative writing at the University of Iowa. Like many of his generation, he investigated alternatives to the accepted Western lifestyle. After he became a Theravada Buddhist monk in India in 1966, Ven. Bodhesako moved to Sri Lanka, where he spent most of his monastic life. He used his literary and philosophic skills to write some innovative, witty and thought-provoking Buddhist essays, all of which are reproduced in this collection. In his essays Ven. Bodhesako investigates the relations between the Pali Canon and modern, especially existentialist, Western philosophy and literature.","products":[{"product_id":"1574","title":"Buddha \u0026 Catch-22, The","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is now twenty-five years since the publication, in 1961, of Joseph Heller's astonishing novel, Catch-22; yet so far, it seems, there has been no public comment on certain striking parallels between the Buddha's Teaching and some of the content of that novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe most immediately obvious similarity between the Teaching and the novel is that both are deeply concerned with man's mortality. \"Old age, sickness, and death\" is a phrase that occurs repeatedly in the Buddha's Teaching. The fact of man's mortality -- a constant peril in an inconstant world -- is a perception absolutely fundamental to the perspective of life presented by the Buddha's Teaching.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd in Catch-22 the protagonist, Yossarian, is no less deeply concerned about old age, sickness, and death. The spectre of their imminence is his constant dread. As his friend Dunbar puts it,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Do you know how long a year takes when it's going away? This long.\" He snapped his fingers. \"A second ago you were stepping into college with your lungs full of fresh air. Today you're an old man.\" \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bodhesako, Samanera","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101508079710,"sku":"BPS:402110","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/402110.jpg?v=1760547714"},{"product_id":"2510","title":"Beginnings: Collected Essays of S. Bodhesako","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book contains all the known published and unpublished essays by S. Bodhesako: \u003ci\u003eBeginnings, Change, The Buddha and Catch-22, The Myth of Sisyphus, Faith, and Being and Craving.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first essay, \u003ci\u003eBeginnings\u003c\/i\u003e, the author discusses the authenticity and relevance of the Buddhist Canon. The second essay, \u003ci\u003eChange\u003c\/i\u003e, investigates the concepts of change, impermanence and time in relation to experience and argues against equating them with the concept of flux or continuous change. In the third essay, \u003ci\u003eThe Buddha and Catch-22\u003c\/i\u003e, the similarities between Joseph Heller's novel and the Buddha's Teaching are discussed. The next essay, \u003cem\u003eThe Myth of Sisyphus\u003c\/em\u003e, is a Buddhist reinterpretation of the Greek myth of Sisyphus, which is symbolizing the endless, recurring nature of our tasks. Ven. Bodhesako also discusses Albert Camus' interpretation of this myth. The essay \u003cem\u003eFaith\u003c\/em\u003e investigates the relevance of faith in the Buddha's Teaching, while the last essay, \u003ci\u003eBeing and Craving\u003c\/i\u003e, deals with the Buddhist concept of craving and its traditional interpretation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection will interest those who like to learn about the Buddha's Teaching from the perspective of modern Western philosophy and and literature as well as those who are interested in alternative, modern interpretations of traditional Buddhist concepts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bodhesako, Samanera","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101550645342,"sku":"BPS:404425","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/404425_8800189c-7d1f-4843-94be-5719bf4c4da7.jpg?v=1760548102"}],"url":"https:\/\/pariyatti.org\/collections\/bodhesako-samanera.oembed","provider":"Pariyatti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}