A Tree in the Forest
PART 2
by Ajahn Chah
CONTENT
1 Part 2
2 A Hundred of Everything
3 Ants” Nest
4 Apple Orchard
5 Apples
6 Bamboo Shoots
7 Big Stick, Little Stick
8 Blind Person
9 Body and Its Charms
10 Boiled Rice
11 Brick Oven
12 Bridge
13 Buddha Statue
14 Building a House and Dyeing Cloth
15 Cars
16 Cat
17 Chicken in a Coop
18 Child
19 Crooked Tree
20 Dirty Tray
21 Downstairs, Upstairs
22 Drops of Water
23 Duck
24 Earthworm
25 Excrement Odor
26 Expensive Object
27 External Sore
28 Falling from a Tree
29 Falling Leaves
30 Farmer and Mother
31 Football
32 Friends
33 Fruit in Hand
34 Fruit Tree
35 Garbage Can
36 Going Astray
37 Going Into Town
38 Good Digestion
39 Grand Central Station
40 Hair in Your Soup
41 Hair that Hides a Mountain
42 Hall
43 Handful of Mud
44 Hen or Rooster
45 Herbal Medicine
46 Host and Guests
47 Hot Iron Ball
48 Hot Iron Bar and Candy
49 Hotel
50 Householder
51 Ignorant Child
52 Infant
53 Itchy Head
54 Key
55 Lead for Gold
56 Leaving an Old Friend
57 Light Switch and Bowl
58 Lizard
59 Lost Something
60 Lotus Leaf
61 Lotuses
62 Lump of Ice
63 Mango
64 Market Lady
65 Meat
66 Meat Between Your Teeth
67 Millipede
68 Millipede and Chicken
69 Money, Wax, and Chicken Dung
70 Monkey
71 Nest of Red Ants
72 Old Granny
73 Old Liar
74 Old Rag
75 Paddy Worker
76 Party Revelers
77 Pedal Sewing Machine
78 Piece of Cake
79 Planting Fruit Trees
80 Poisonous Injection
81 Precious Pen
82 Raging Tiger
83 Red-Hot Coal and Bird
84 Restless Monkey
85 Rivers and Streams
86 Rope
87 Sand and Salt
88 School boy
89 Spillway
90 Splinter in Your Foot
91 Stubborn Horse
92 Stump
93 Sweet Dessert
94 Sweet Mango
95 Sweet Papayas
96 Tape Recorder
97 Thief and Boxer
98 Thieves and Murderers
99 Tightly Woven Net
100 Tree
101 Trees Growing Outward
102 Vanity
103 Vine
104 Vulture
105 Water in an Urn
106 Water Buffalo
107 Well and Orchard
108 Wooden Log
109 Sweet Papayas
PART 2
"All the teachings are merely similes and comparisons, means to help the mind see the truth."
Similes
A Hundred of Everything
People only think about the pleasure of acquiring and don”t consider the trouble involved. When I was a novice I used to talk to the lay people about the happiness of wealth and possessions, having servants and so on - a hundred male servants, a hundred female servants, a hundred cows, a hundred buffaloes . . . a hundred of everything. The lay people really liked that. But can you imagine looking after a hundred buffaloes, or a hundred cows, not to mention the two hundred servants
Would that be fun
People do not consider this side of things. They have the desire to possess, to have the cows, the buffaloes and the servants, hundreds of them. But I say fifty buffaloes would be too much. Just twining the rope for all those brutes would already be one big headache! But people don”t consider this. They just want to acquire as much as they can.
Ants” Nest
When we sit in meditation we want the mind to become peaceful, but it doesn”t. We don”t want to think, but we think. It”s like a person who is sitting on an ants” nest. The ants just keep on biting him. Why
Because when the mind is in the world, then even though a person is sitting still with his eyes closed, all he sees is the world. Pleasure, sorrow, anxiety, confusion, they all arise, because he still hasn”t realized Dhamma. If the mind is like this, the meditator can”t endure the worldly dhammas, he can”t investigate. It”s just the same as if he were sitting on an ants” nest. The ants are going to bite because he”s right on their home. So what should he do
He should look for a way to get rid of them.
Apple Orchard
If you ask people why they were born, they probably would have a lot of trouble answering, because they”re sunk in the world of the senses and sunk in becom…
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