Contents

• Titlepage
• Table of Contents
• Cover
• 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