Contents

• Titlepage
• Table of Contents
• Cover
• Copyright
• Photo
• 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