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Cover
Titlepage
Copyright
Photo
Quotation
Introduction
Your Real Home
To the Ocean
Groundwater
It’s All Right Here
Elephants, Oxen, & Water Buffaloes
The Roots
The Lost Wallet
Wagon Wheels, Wagon Tracks
A Block of Ice
Children, Bullets
The Tail of the Snake
The King of Death
The Beginning Is the End
Leaves
Colored Water
Orphaned
Why It’s Heavy
A Hypodermic Needle
Meat Stuck in Your Teeth
A Thirst unto Death
Poking a Red Ants’ Nest
A Frog on the Hook
A Sense That Your Arm is Short
Rowf! Rowf! Rowf!
The Dog on a Pile of Unhusked Rice
Mange
Maggots
Rivers
The Chicken & the Duck
Salt That’s Not Salty
The Lonely Path
A Thorn
Carrying a Rock
A Splinter
Groping for Fish
A Spittoon
Peels & Husks
Doing the Math
The Broken Glass
Salt
An Upside-down Basin
A Leaky Basin
Water in a Jar
A Mold
Vines
A Cup of Dirty Water
Picking Mangoes
Your Inner Tape Recorder
Balloons
No Match for an Ox
The Heart Its Own Teacher
Water & Oil
Supposed Monks, Genuine Monks
Making Tables & Chairs
The Millipede
Sweeping
Planting Peppers
The Way to the Monastery
Medicine
Rubbing Fire Sticks
The Key of Meditation
Hot & Cold
Against the Flow
The Cat
Work First, Wages Later
Eating Sugarcane
The Fence
In the Shape of a Circle
Fires & Floods
Putting Down the Glass
The Poisoned Banana
Studying vs. Going into Battle
The Hand
Written Words
Falling Out of a Tree
The Knife
Learning How to Write
The Child & the Adult
A Stick
Painting a Picture
The Food You Like
Catching a Lizard
Water Drops, Water Streams
Herding Water Buffalo
Beating the Buffalo
Teaching a Child
Standard Form
Sowing Rice
Teaching a Child
Sending off a Relative
Keeping Watch
Receiving Visitors
Chicken in a Cage
A Mischievous Child
Living with a Cobra
Leaving the Cobra Alone
A Kiln
Fallen Mangoes
The Spider
Wild Chickens
Monkeys
The Tree Pulls Itself Down
Heavy Lifting
Bottled Water, Spring Water
Still, Flowing Water
The Log in the Canal
Waves Coming Ashore
The Saw

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Venerable Ajahn Chah