Things As They Are “The Gift of Dhamma Excels All Other Gifts” —The Lord Buddha Things As They Are Ajaan Mahã Boowa Ñãõasampanno Translated by Åhãnissaro Bhikkhu A Forest Dhamma Publication ThingsA Forest DhammaAs They Publication Are All commercial rights reserved. © 2012 Ajaan Mahã Boowa Ñãõasampanno Dhamma should not be sold like goods in the market place. Permission to reproduce this publication in any way for free distribution, as a gift of Dhamma, is hereby granted and no further permission need be obtained. Reproduction in any way for commercial gain is strictly prohibited. Inquiries may be addressed to: Forest Dhamma Books Baan Taad Forest Monastery Udon Thani 41000, Thailand
[email protected] www.forestdhamma.org Ajaan Mun Bhýridatta Thera Ajaan Mahã Boowa Ñãõasampanno “Just as if there were a pool of water in a mountain glen – clear, limpid, and unsullied – where a man with good eyes standing on the bank could see shells, gravel, and pebbles, and also shoals of fish swimming about and resting, and it would occur to him, ‘This pool of water is clear, limpid, and unsullied. Here are these shells, gravel, and pebbles, and also these shoals of fish swimming about and resting;’ so too, the monk discerns as it actually is, that ‘This is suffering... This is the origin of suffering... This is the stopping of suffering... This is the way leading to the stopping of suffering... These are mental outflows... This is the origin of mental outflows... This is the stopping of mental outflows... This is the way leading to the stopping of mental outflows.’ His heart, thus knowing, thus seeing, is released from the effluent of sensuality, released from the effluent of becoming, released from the effluent of ignorance.