{"id":528,"date":"2017-01-20T19:38:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T19:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susancarolstone.com\/wp\/?page_id=528"},"modified":"2017-01-20T20:11:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T20:11:42","slug":"book-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/susancarolstone.com\/wp\/books\/book-1\/","title":{"rendered":"book 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

of\u00a0The Sati Trilogy:
\nThe Kosambi Intrigue<\/em><\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI loved\u00a0The Kosambi Intrigue.<\/em>\u00a0The characters are distinctive and alive, the dramatic narrative unfolds at a steady, engaging pace and the world of the Buddha\u2019s time is sketched with great vividness\u2026brilliantly done.\u201d<\/h3>\n

Stephen Batchelor, teacher, author of best-selling\u00a0Buddhism Without Beliefs,<\/i>teacher, former Zen and Tibetan monk<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cA terrific read! Susan Stone writes with a sure, deft hand, and magically brings alive one of the most pivotal times in the unfolding story of human consciousness.\u201d<\/h3>\n

Tara Brach, author of\u00a0True Refuge<\/em>, teacher, clinical psychologist<\/p>\n

\u201cTender, piercing, instructive, and heartwarming.\u201d<\/h3>\n

Toinette Lippe, East Asian brush artist and author,\u00a0Caught in the Act<\/i><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Book 1,\u00a0The Sati Trilogy<\/em><\/h3>\n

The Kosambi Intrigue: A Tale in the Time of the Buddha<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a>When a trivial incident sparks conflict in a Buddhist monastery, the young monk Sati is embroiled in a plot that reaches all the way to the palace and inflames the city of Kosambi. Amid corrosive tensions, Sati struggles to make sense of his monastic calling and the teachings of mindfulness and lovingkindness. He faces challenges that test even the wisdom of the Buddha, exposing the worst and inspiring the best in all those caught in the plot.<\/p>\n

The Kosambi Intrigue,\u00a0<\/i>the first book in\u00a0The Sati Trilogy<\/i>, is structured around the first schism in the Buddha\u2019s order.\u00a0Although the situation occurred more than two thousand years ago, the range of human reactions are as true of idiosyncratic humanity now as they were then.\u00a0The book draws out what is timeless and universal in what is otherwise a remote and unfamiliar place and time.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>This Breath Press, 2012. Available\u00a0on\u00a0Amazon<\/a>\u00a0in paper and Kindle\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Read an excerpt.<\/a><\/p>\n

A reading from The Kosambi Intrigue<\/a>\u00a0— video (15:21)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

of\u00a0The Sati Trilogy: The Kosambi Intrigue \u201cI loved\u00a0The Kosambi Intrigue.\u00a0The characters are distinctive and alive, the dramatic narrative unfolds at a steady, engaging pace and the world of the Buddha\u2019s time is sketched with great vividness\u2026brilliantly done.\u201d Stephen Batchelor, teacher, author of best-selling\u00a0Buddhism Without Beliefs,teacher, former Zen and Tibetan monk…<\/p>\n

Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":389,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-528","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/susancarolstone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/susancarolstone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/susancarolstone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/susancarolstone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/susancarolstone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/susancarolstone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"http:\/\/susancarolstone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/528\/revisions\/561"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/susancarolstone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/susancarolstone.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}