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Introduction
A Bird in a Cage
The Power of the Dhamma
Your Own Witness
The Language of the Dhamma
Open Your Eyes
Dyeing the Cloth
Remove the Weeds
Why Wait?
Awakening to the Dhamma
Knowledge & Goodness
Goodness Without Discernment
Genuine Wealth
Seeing the Fullness
The Teacup
Pouncing on Fire
Learning about Fire
Teaching from the Top
Drop after Drop
Just Right
Everything Gathers in the Ocean
Coconut Water
Patience
The Dhamma in a Pot
Chickens Coming to the Monastery
Thieves
The Blind Person
don’t run along
The Salt of Meditation
Complete Food for the Mind
Moving the Glass
Better Than No Rice
The Chicken in the Cage
Only One Hole Open
The Water Cooler
Recognizing Fire
Looking for a Teacher
The Stick in the Stream
Addicted to Curry
Eating the Hook
The Tree in the Seed
Running in Circles
Lifting the Bowl
See for Yourself
Talk about Blindness
Your Duty
Sitting with a Cobra
The Spider
A Road Through the Wilderness
Roads to Pass By
Know One, Know Them All
Two Different Things
Killed by the Mind
Hiding in the Mind
Strength & Harmony
You Know You’re Full
Husk & Not-husk
What’s Wrong in What’s Right
Feeding Through the Mouth
Potters Beating Pots
Forcing the Fruit
The Turtle & the Snake
The Cow Knows the Field
Barking at Leaves
Dye in the Mind
Not Awfully Anything
Playthings for the Mind
The Balloon of Tranquility
The Balloon is Already Burst
When You Know How
The One Mango
The One Mango Explained
The Mango in Harmony
The Fluttering Mind
The Snake under the Cloth
Healing the Wound
The Stillness of Insight
Rocks in the Way
Killing Your Meditation
Staying at Home
Fix It Right Here
A Fish on Land
Overcoming Pain
Why Study?
The Name of the Fruit
Counting the Rootlets
Mr. A & the Letter A
What’s That?
The Farmer & the Cobra
Awakening to the Cobra
Our Responsibilities
Cleaning the House
Better & Better
The Compass
The Saltiness of Salt
Lead vs. Gold
The Thinking of Earthworms
Neither Large nor Small
Why
Grabbing Hold of a Dog
When the Bees Leave the Hive
Eating Out of the Shit-pot
The Parts of a Knife
Knowing In-between
When the Cabinet is Done
Our Own Affair
In the Cage
Filling the Glass
Mindfulness of Death
It’s Like This
108 DHAMMA SIMILES
Venerable Ajahn Chah
Translated from the Thai by
Thanissaro Bhikkhu
