{"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\u003eBetween 1958 and 2002, a total of 334 individual physical Wheel Publication booklets were published by the Buddhist Publication Society (BPS). Those 334 booklets included 468 essays, tracts, and monographs; many were published as double or triple volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThese classic Wheel booklets are not being reprinted; many are no longer available as single issues. We have the last print run in stock—the last existing physical booklets! If this specific Wheel No. is out of stock, please note that it won’t be restocked.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSee also: \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/collected-wheels\"\u003eCollected Wheel Publications series (BPE)—Pariyatti Edition\u003c\/a\u003e (Free PDF available per volume)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eFree PDF copies of individual booklets are available from the BPS website; some are \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bps.lk\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003elisted\u003c\/a\u003e, while others can be found via the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bps.lk\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eGoogle search feature\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:\/\/pariyatti.org\/products\/1818","provider":"Pariyatti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}