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108 DHAMMA SIMILES from Ajahn Chah

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It’s Like This


Chah 3 - It’s Like This
    Chah 3.1 - A Bird in a Cage
    Chah 3.2 - The Power of the Dhamma
    Chah 3.3 - Your Own Witness
    Chah 3.4 - The Language of the Dhamma
    Chah 3.5 - Open Your Eyes
    Chah 3.6 - Dyeing the Cloth
    Chah 3.7 - Remove the Weeds
    Chah 3.8 - Why Wait?
    Chah 3.9 - Awakening to the Dhamma
    Chah 3.10 - Knowledge & Goodness
    Chah 3.11 - Goodness Without Discernment
    Chah 3.12 - Genuine Wealth
    Chah 3.13 - Seeing the Fullness
    Chah 3.14 - The Teacup
    Chah 3.15 - Pouncing on Fire
    Chah 3.16 - Learning about Fire
    Chah 3.17 - Teaching from the Top
    Chah 3.18 - Drop after Drop
    Chah 3.19 - Just Right
    Chah 3.20 - Everything Gathers in the Ocean
    Chah 3.21 - Coconut Water
    Chah 3.22 - Patience
    Chah 3.23 - The Dhamma in a Pot
    Chah 3.24 - Chickens Coming to the Monastery
    Chah 3.25 - Thieves
    Chah 3.26 - The Blind Person
    Chah 3.27 - don’t run along
    Chah 3.28 - The Salt of Meditation
    Chah 3.29 - Complete Food for the Mind
    Chah 3.30 - Moving the Glass
    Chah 3.31 - Better Than No Rice
    Chah 3.32 - The Chicken in the Cage
    Chah 3.33 - Only One Hole Open
    Chah 3.34 - The Water Cooler
    Chah 3.35 - Recognizing Fire
    Chah 3.36 - Looking for a Teacher
    Chah 3.37 - The Stick in the Stream
    Chah 3.38 - Addicted to Curry
    Chah 3.39 - Eating the Hook
    Chah 3.40 - The Tree in the Seed
    Chah 3.41 - Running in Circles
    Chah 3.42 - Lifting the Bowl
    Chah 3.43 - See for Yourself
    Chah 3.44 - Talk about Blindness
    Chah 3.45 - Your Duty
    Chah 3.46 - Sitting with a Cobra
    Chah 3.47 - The Spider
    Chah 3.48 - A Road Through the Wilderness
    Chah 3.49 - Roads to Pass By
    Chah 3.50 - Know One, Know Them All
    Chah 3.51 - Two Different Things
    Chah 3.52 - Killed by the Mind
    Chah 3.53 - Hiding in the Mind
    Chah 3.54 - This is why the Buddha said that kamma is what sorts people out so that they’re different.
    Chah 3.55 - You Know You’re Full
    Chah 3.56 - Husk & Not-husk
    Chah 3.57 - Conventions and release come along with each other in the same way.
    Chah 3.58 - Feeding Through the Mouth
    Chah 3.59 - Potters Beating Pots
    Chah 3.60 - Forcing the Fruit
    Chah 3.61 - The Turtle & the Snake
    Chah 3.62 - The Cow Knows the Field
    Chah 3.63 - Barking at Leaves
    Chah 3.64 - Dye in the Mind
    Chah 3.65 - Not Awfully Anything
    Chah 3.66 - Playthings for the Mind
    Chah 3.67 - The Balloon of Tranquility
    Chah 3.68 - The Balloon is Already Burst
    Chah 3.69 - When You Know How
    Chah 3.70 - The One Mango
    Chah 3.71 - The One Mango Explained
    Chah 3.72 - The Mango in Harmony
    Chah 3.73 - The Fluttering Mind
    Chah 3.74 - The Snake under the Cloth
    Chah 3.75 - Healing the Wound
    Chah 3.76 - The Stillness of Insight
    Chah 3.77 - Rocks in the Way
    Chah 3.78 - Killing Your Meditation
    Chah 3.79 - Staying at Home
    Chah 3.80 - Fix It Right Here
    Chah 3.81 - A Fish on Land
    Chah 3.82 - Overcoming Pain
    Chah 3.83 - Why Study?
    Chah 3.84 - The Name of the Fruit
    Chah 3.85 - Counting the Rootlets
    Chah 3.86 - Mr. A & the Letter A
    Chah 3.87 - What’s That?
    Chah 3.88 - The Farmer & the Cobra
    Chah 3.89 - Awakening to the Cobra
    Chah 3.90 - Our Responsibilities
    Chah 3.91 - Cleaning the House
    Chah 3.92 - Better & Better
    Chah 3.93 - The Compass
    Chah 3.94 - The Saltiness of Salt
    Chah 3.95 - Lead vs. Gold
    Chah 3.96 - The Thinking of Earthworms
    Chah 3.97 - Neither Large nor Small
    Chah 3.98 - [A layman answers: “Small, sir.”]
    Chah 3.99 - Grabbing Hold of a Dog
    Chah 3.100 - When the Bees Leave the Hive
    Chah 3.101 - Eating Out of the Shit-pot
    Chah 3.102 - The Parts of a Knife
    Chah 3.103 - Knowing In-between
    Chah 3.104 - When the Cabinet is Done
    Chah 3.105 - Our Own Affair
    Chah 3.106 - In the Cage
    Chah 3.107 - Filling the Glass
    Chah 3.108 - Mindfulness of Death 

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