Ajahn Chah was a master at using the apt and unusual simile to explain points of Dhamma. The translations of these similes have been polished as little as possible, for their unpolished nature is precisely what reveals unexpected layers of meaning. This book is a companion to It’s Like This.
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Table of Contents Titlepage 2 Copyright 3 Photo 4 Quotation 5 Introduction 6 Your Real Home 8 To the Ocean 8 Groundwater 8 It’s All Right Here 9 Elephants, Oxen, & Water Buffaloes 9 The Roots 9 The Lost Wallet 10 Wagon Wheels, Wagon Tracks 10 A Block of Ice 11 Children, Bullets 11 The Tail of the Snake 12 The King of Death 13 The Beginning Is the End 13 Leaves 14 Colored Water 14 Orphaned 14 Why It’s Heavy 15 A Hypodermic Needle 15 Meat Stuck in Your Teeth 16 A Thirst unto Death 16 Poking a Red Ants’ Nest 17 A Frog on the Hook 17 A Sense That Your Arm is Short 17 Rowf! Rowf! Rowf! 18 The Dog on a Pile of Unhusked Rice 18 Mange 19 Maggots 20 Rivers 20 The Chicken & the Duck 21 Salt That’s Not Salty 21 The Lonely Path 22 A Thorn 22 Carrying a Rock 22 A Splinter 23 Groping for Fish 24 A Spittoon 25 Peels & Husks 26 Doing the Math 27 The Broken Glass 28 Salt 28 An Upside-down Basin 29 A Leaky Basin 29 Water in a Jar 29 A Mold 30 Vines 30 A Cup of Dirty Water 31 Picking Mangoes 31 Your Inner Tape Recorder 31 Balloons 32 No Match for an Ox 32 The Heart Its Own Teacher 32 Water & Oil 33 Supposed Monks, Genuine Monks 33 Making Tables & Chairs 34 The Millipede 34 Sweeping 35 Planting Peppers 35 The Way to the Monastery 35 Medicine 36 Rubbing Fire Sticks 36 The Key of Meditation 36 Hot & Cold 37 Against the Flow 37 The Cat 37 Work First, Wages Later 38 Eating Sugarcane 38 The Fence 38 In the Shape of a Circle 39 Fires & Floods 39 Putting Down the Glass 40 The Poisoned Banana 40 Studying vs. Going into Battle 40 The Hand 41 Written Words 41 Falling Out of a Tree 42 The Knife 42 Learning How to Write 43 The Child & the Adult 43 A Stick 43 Painting a Picture 44 The Food You Like 44 Catching a Lizard 45 Water Drops, Water Streams 45 Herding Water Buffalo 46 Beating the Buffalo 46 Teaching a Child 47 Standard Form 47 Sowing Rice 47 Teaching a Child 48 Sending off a Relative 48 Keeping Watch 49 Receiving Visitors 50 Chicken in a Cage 50 A Mischievous Child 51 Living with a Cobra 51 Leaving the Cobra Alone 51 A Kiln 52 Fallen Mangoes 52 The Spider 53 Wild Chickens 54 Monkeys 55 The Tree Pulls Itself Down 56 Heavy Lifting 56 Bottled Water, Spring Water 56 Still, Flowing Water 57 The Log in the Canal 57 Waves Coming Ashore 57 The Saw 58
