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Chulmani Chedi in Heaven
Celetial beings hover in the sky. Sakka, in green skin, kneels by a monk to hear the preaching. The central theme of the painting is the Chulmani Chedi (stupa) in the middle of an octagonal shaped courtyard. Aside from the natural pigments used in this painting, the figures and the chedi are also gilded with gold leaf giving the picture a subtle richness.
19th Century, Bangkok Period
Natural pigments on teak wood
Original teak wood frame
Size: 80 cm (ht.) x 60 cm (width)
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Index of Similes
This is a partial index of the similes and metaphors that appear in the suttas available at Access to Insight. Only the imagery that illustrates points of Dhamma is included here; imagery that serves primarily a literary or narrative function is not included (e.g., Ambapali’s description of her long-lost youthful beauty). The subject of each image is given in the braces {}. The tilde (~) stands for the head-word in a given entry.
Suttas without hyperlinks are those not currently available at Access to Insight; they are included here only for reference.
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- Acrobats {watching after oneself/others} SN 47.19
- Ancient city {awakening} SN 12.65
- Animals bound together by a rope {lack of mindfulness} SN 35.206
- Archer: {brevity of life; heedfulness} SN 20.6; archer’s apprentice {jhana} AN 9.36. See also Arrow, Fletcher.
- Arrow: {dukkha} Sn 3.8; poisoned {speculative views} MN 63, {craving} MN 105, {contagiousness of evil} Iti 76; person shot with two ~ {physical and mental pain} SN 36.6; in the heart {sensuality} Sn 4.15; piercing a horsehair {subtlety of Dhamma} SN 56.45; Thag 1.26; removed {greed} SN 1.5; shot into the night {bad people} Dhp 304; straightened by a fletcher (see Fletcher). See also Doctor, Fletcher.
B
- Bamboo: destroyed by its own fruit {evil} Dhp 164, Iti 50; spreading {solitude in the wilderness} Sn 1.3
- Bathman or bathman’s apprentice {rapture of 1st jhana} DN 2, DN 11, DN 12, MN 39, MN 119, AN 5.28
- Bandits {external sense media} SN 35.197
- Barley reaper {defilements} Miln II.1.8
- Beast of burden {persistence} Sn 1.4
- Beauty queen {mindfulness} SN 47.20
- Bee gathering nectar {sage} Dhp 49
- Bird: escaping from net {rarity of heavenly birth} Dhp 174; leaving no track {arahant} Dhp 92; sighting shore {seeking the Buddha; meaning of Tathagata} DN 11, AN 6.54; spattered with dirt {mindfulness} SN 9.1; with wings as its only burden {contentment} DN 2, DN 11
- Blindness {ignorance} MN 75
- Blind men: row of {ignorance} MN 95; and the elephant {ignorance} Ud 6.4
- Blind sea-turtle poking his head up through a yoke {rarity of human birth} MN 129, SN 56.48
- Boat being bailed out {defilements} Dhp 369
- Bog {sensuality} Sn 4.15
- Boil, festering {the body} AN 9.15
- Boiling the River Ganges {speech} MN 21
- Bones: chain or heap {sensuality} MN 54, AN 5.76; mountain {length of samsara} Iti 24
- Bottomless chasm {painful feeling} SN 36.4
- Boulder thrown into lake {kamma} SN 42.6
- Bowl of poison {passion} Thig 14
- Branch, man grasping a {self-view} AN 4.178
- Bubble on water {appropriate attention} SN 22.95
- Bull: born into a herd of cattle {arahant} AN 5.179; yoked to a load {endurance} Thag 14.2. See also Cow.
- Burning ghee or oil {meditation on the fire property} Ud 8.9, Ud 8.10
- Burning grass or leaves {not-self} SN 35.101
- Burning refuge {dukkha} Sn 3.8
- Butcher or butcher’s apprentice: {meditation on the four properties} DN 22, MN 119; {trance of non-breathing} MN 36. See also Bull, Cow.
- Butcher of goats {kamma} AN 3.99
- Butter from water{wrong view} MN 126
C
- Calf not seeing its mother {change & alteration} SN 22.80. See also Cow.
- Carpenter: {wearing down the effluents} SN 22.101; {self-control} Dhp 80, Dhp 145; {applied thought} Miln II.3.13
- Cart wheel {suffering} Dhp 1
- Catching arrows {brevity of life; heedfulness} SN 20.6
- Cave {the body; sensuality} Sn 4.2
- Cesspool difficult to clean {impurities} Sn 2.6
- Chaff: {corrupt person} Sn 1.5, Sn 2.6; {dead body} SN 35.69; {others’ faults} Dhp 252
- Chariot: {anger} Dhp 222; {the body} Dhp 151; {concentration} AN 5.28; {mindfulness} MN 119; {world} Dhp 171
- Chariots, relay {stages of insight} MN 24
- Charioteer {sense-restraint} Dhp 94
- Cheater {others’ errors} Dhp 252
- Children playing with sand castles {aggregates} SN 23.2
- City of bones {the body} Dhp 150
- City superintendent at a crossroads {consciousness} Miln II.3.12
- Cleansing of the body with scouring balls and bath powder {cleansing the mind} AN 3.70
- Cleansing of the head with paste and clay {cleansing the mind} AN 3.70
- Cliff, frightful {fear of birth, aging, and death} SN 56.42
- Cloth: person covered with white {4th jhana} DN 2, DN 11, DN 12, MN 39, AN 5.28; soiled {conceit} SN 22.89; to be dyed {defiled and undefiled mind} MN 7, Ud 5.3
- Cock’s feather in fire {unattractiveness} AN 7.46
- Conch-trumpet blower {sublime attitudes} SN 42.8
- Constellations {heedfulness} AN 10.15
- Cotton tuft {rapture} Thag 1.104
- Couple eating their child {purpose of food} SN 12.63
- Cow: butchered {meditation on the four properties} DN 22, MN 119; flayed {contact} SN 12.63; led to slaughter {inevitability of death} AN 7.70, Sn 3.8; milked dry {lack of moderation} MN 33, AN 11.18; producing milk, curds, butter, ghee, etc. {practice for oneself and others} AN 4.95; roaming in the mountains {mastery of jhana} AN 9.35; skinned {sensuality} MN 146; that runs away {fool} SN 11.5; udder {brief time} SN 20.4. See also Bull, Butcher.
- Cowherd: competent {skillfulness} MN 33, AN 11.18; counting another’s cattle {heedlessness} Dhp 19; driving cattle {aging and death} Dhp 135; incompetent {unskillfulness} MN 33, AN 11.18; mindful of his cows {skillfulness} MN 19; prodding and poking his cows {skillfulness} MN 19; reflecting on the places his cattle have wandered {uposatha} AN 3.70. See also Bull, Cow.
- Crafts, Trades, and Professions. See Archer, Bathman, Butcher, Carpenter, Charioteer, Cowherd, Doctor, Elephant tamer, Fletcher, Goldsmith, Horsetrainer, Irrigator, Ivory carver, King, Magician, Potter, Silversmith, Trader, Turner, Warrior, Weigher.
- Creeper pod {future dangers} MN 45
- Crooked chariot wheels {faults} AN 3.15
- Cymbals striking together {contact} Miln II.3.8
D
- Darkness, intergalactic {fear of birth, aging, and death} SN 56.46
- Debt {conviction} AN 6.45
- Deer that wanders in the wilderness {solitude} Sn 1.3
- Dewdrop on tip of grass blade {brevity of life} AN 7.70
- Digging in earth {speech} MN 21
- Dirt-washer {purifying the mind} AN 3.100 (i-x)
- Doctor {the Buddha} MN 63, MN 105. See also Arrow.
- Dog: chasing swine {gratitude} SN 7.14; gnawing on a chain of bones {sensuality} MN 54; tied to a post {self-view} SN 22.99, SN 22.100.
- Donkey that thinks it’s a cow {insincerity with regard to the Dhamma} AN 3.81
- Drawing pictures in space {speech} MN 21
- Dream, waking from: {sensuality} MN 54; {death} Sn 4.6
- Drinking water {subduing hatred}: from a clear pool AN 5.162; from a dirty pool AN 5.162; from a puddle in a hoofprint AN 5.162
- Drum peg {listening to Dhamma} SN 20.7
- Dry piece of wood {mindfulness} MN 119
- Dung beetle {pride} SN 17.5
- Dust: on a fingertip {dukkha} SN 13.1, {rarity of human birth} SN 20.2; thrown into wind {evil} Dhp 125
- Dusty road {household life} DN 2, DN 11, DN 12, MN 36, MN 125
E
- Earth {arahant} Dhp 95
- Elephant: and the blind men {ignorance} Ud 6.4; footprint {four noble truths} MN 28, {heedfulness} SN 3.17, AN 10.15; in battle {patient endurance} Dhp 320, Thag 3.8; in battle {sensual passion} AN 5.139, {sense-restraint} AN 5.140; in rut {self-control} Dhp 324, Dhp 326; in the wild {mature companion} Sn 1.3; relieves an itch {solitude in the wilderness} AN 9.40; renouncing its herd {solitude in the wilderness} Sn 1.3; snared {attachments} MN 66; stuck in mud {heedfulness} Dhp 327; tamable {factors for exertion} MN 90; tamed {self-training} Dhp 322
- Elephant-tamer {renunciation} MN 125
- Embers in a pit {passion} Thig 14
- Empty water pot {mindfulness} MN 119
- Executioner: five {aggregates} SN 35.197; sixth {passion/delight} SN 35.197
- Eyes, man opening and closing his {faculties} MN 152
F
- False path in the forest {wrong eightfold path} MN 19
- Farmer’s urgent duties {self-training} AN 3.91
- Field: neglecting one’s own {teaching Dhamma} DN 12; spoiled by weeds {passion} Dhp 356
- Fire: {clinging} SN 12.52, SN 35.28, SN 44.9; {heedfulness} Dhp 31; {passion} Dhp 251; {discernment} Thag 1.3; fire’s destination {nibbana} Ud 8.10; fire not returning {solitude in the wilderness} Sn 1.3; hidden in ashes {unskillful action} Dhp 71
- Fire-stick {sensuality} MN 36; {feeling} SN 48.39
- Firebrand with excrement: {practicing Dhamma for no one’s benefit} AN 4.95; {failing to practice Dhamma} SN 22.80, Iti 91
- Fish: caught in net {solitude in the wilderness} Sn 1.3, {sensuality} Thag 4.8; caught in trap {sensuality} Ud 7.4; caught on a hook {six senses} SN 35.189; in dried-up puddle {self-view} Sn 4.2, SN 5.10; flip-flapping on dry land {unsteady mind} Dhp 34; rising through the water {recognizing a wise person} AN 4.192; rotten and wrapped in grass {associating with fools} Iti 76; struggling in water {quarreling} Sn 4.15
- Fisherman {Mara} SN 35.189
- Flame: overthrown by wind {arahant} Sn 5.6; passed from one lamp to another {rebirth} Miln III.5.5; unbinding of {nibbana} Thig 5.10;
- Fletcher straightening an arrow: {exertion} MN 101; {training the mind} Dhp 33, Thag 1.29; {restraint} Dhp 145, Dhp 80. See also Arrow.
- Flies’ eggs {sensuality} MN 33, AN 11.18
- Flood {craving, sensuality, becoming, ignorance} SN 1.1, SN 45.171; {greed} Sn 4.15; sweeping away a sleeping village {death} Dhp 47, Dhp 286. See also River, Ocean.
- Flower: blossom {speech} Dhp 51; heap {skillfulness} Dhp 53; scent {integrity} Dhp 54. See also Lotus.
- Flower-arranger {Dhamma follower} Dhp 44
- Foam {the body} Dhp 46
- Fords {asking questions} MN 33, AN 11.18
- Forest: {desire} Dhp 283; {Dhamma} Sn 2.1
- Fort {mind} Dhp 40
- Fragrances {heedfulness}: flower AN 10.15; root AN 10.15; wood AN 10.15
- Frontier fortress: {the body} SN 35.204; {seven skillful qualities} AN 7.63; {liberation is not for everyone} AN 10.95; {guarding oneself} Dhp 315, Thag 14.1; foundation post {conviction} AN 7.63; moat {shame} AN 7.63; encircling road {concern} AN 7.63; weapons {learning} AN 7.63; army {persistence} AN 7.63; gate-keeper {mindfulness} AN 7.63; ramparts {discernment} AN 7.63; stores of grass {1st jhana} AN 7.63; stores of rice {2nd jhana} AN 7.63; stores of sesame {3rd jhana} AN 7.63; stores of tonics {4th jhana} AN 7.63
- Fruit, ripe {death} Sn 3.8
- Full moon {discernment} Thig 1.3. See Moon.
- Full water pot {mindfulness} MN 119
- Fumigation {teaching Dhamma} MN 33, AN 11.18
G
- Gem with colored thread inside {clear seeing} DN 2, DN 11, DN 12
- Gift of food {good will} SN 20.4
- Goat butcher {kamma} AN 3.99
- Gold: coins raining {sensuality} Dhp 186; disappearance of {disappearance of Dhamma} SN 16.13; ingot {discernment and virtue} Dhp 229; mountain {sensuality} SN 4.20; ornament {arahant} AN 4.28
- Goldsmith: purifying gold {purifying the mind} AN 3.100 (i-x), AN 3.100 (xi-xv); crafting any kind of article {supranormla powers} DN 2, DN 11
- Gong {applied and sustained thought} Miln II.3.14
- Gourds in autumn {bones} Dhp 149
- Grass: with sharp blades {wrong practice} Dhp 311; wild grass after rain {dukkha} Dhp 335
- Green reed cut down {foolish person} SN 1.10
- Ground far from the sky {foolish person} SN 5.10
- Guest house {feelings in the body} SN 36.14
- Guest refusing the host’s food {insulting behavior} SN 7.2
H
- Handful of leaves {Dhamma} SN 56.31
- Hands clapping {contact} Miln II.3.8
- Hawk attacking quail {mindfulness} SN 47.6
- Head of snake {sensuality} Sn 4.1
- Head on fire: See Turban on fire
- Head sliced open with sword {pain} MN 36
- Hell, saved from {Dhamma} DN 12
- Hen covering her eggs {virtue, etc.} MN 53, SN 22.101
- Herd of cattle {arahant} AN 3.57
- Herons wasting away {falling short of celibacy} Dhp 155
- Himalayas {good people} Dhp 304
- Hog, fat and lazy {foolish person} Dhp 325
- Honey ball {flavor of Dhamma} MN 18
- Hooks {six senses}: SN 35.189
- Horse: awakened by the whip {conscience} SN 1.18; deprived of fodder {father of fools} SN 7.14; fast {wise person} Dhp 29; stallion {self-training} Dhp 94, Dhp 144, Dhp 380; stirred by a goad-stick {trainable person} AN 4.113; tamed {self-tamed person} Dhp 322; thoroughbred {arahant} Thag 2.27, Thig 5.10; thoroughbred {jhana} AN 11.10; thoroughbred {qualities of a consummate monk} AN 3.94, AN 8.13; unbroken colt {jhana} AN 11.10
- Horsetrainer {trainable person} AN 4.111
- House: built from the bottom up {four noble truths} SN 56.44; fireproof {mindfulness/awareness} SN 35.202; flammable {mindfulness/awareness} SN 35.202; on fire {the body} SN 1.41; with poor roof {unguarded mind} AN 3.105.
I
- Illness, man recovering from {hindrances} DN 2, DN 11, DN 12, MN 39
- Incense wrapped in leaf {associating with people of integrity} Iti 76
- Indra’s pillar {arahant} Dhp 95
- Inscription in rock or water {anger} AN 3.130
- Insects falling into flame {ignorance} Ud 6.9
- Iron ball aflame, eating or swallowing an: {restraint} Dhp 307, Iti 48, Iti 91; {sensuality} Dhp 371
- Irrigator {self-control} Dhp 80, Dhp 145
- Island {refuge in Dhamma} DN 16, DN 26, SN 47.13, Dhp 25, Dhp 236, Dhp 238, Sn 5.10
- Ivory carver or his assistant {supranormal powers} DN 2, DN 11
J
K
L
- Lake: deep and calm {wise people} Dhp 82; dried-up {virtue} Dhp 155; free of mud {arahant} Dhp 95; person stranded in the middle {clinging} Sn 5.10; spring-fed {jhana} DN 2, DN 11, DN 12, MN 39, MN 119, AN 5.28; unruffled by wind {arahant} Iti 92.
- Lamp: going out {detachment} SN 54.8; in a dark house {insight} Miln II.1.14; passing its flame to another {rebirth} Miln III.5.5; in the dark {stock exclamation of appreciation of the Dhamma} β see Uprighting what had been overturned
- Leaf, yellowed {aging} Dhp 235
- Leaky boat {pain} Sn 4.1
- Leaves: blown from a tree {unwholesome states} Thag 17.2; handful of {Dhamma} SN 56.31
- Leper covered with sores {sensuality} MN 75
- Lily crushed in hand {self-view} Dhp 285
- Limb falling from tree {nibbana} SN 47.13
- Linchpin in a moving cart {generosity and kindness} AN 4.32
- Lion: in the wild {solitude in the wilderness} Sn 1.3, Sn 3.1; unstartled by sounds {wise person} Sn 1.3, Sn 1.12
- Line drawn on water {brevity of life} AN 7.70
- Loan, man taking out a {hindrances} DN 2, DN 11, DN 12, MN 39
- Log in a stream {path of practice} SN 35.200. See also Stream.
- Lost caravan leader {virtue} Snp IV.13
- Lotus: pond {jhana} DN 2, DN 11, DN 12, MN 39, MN 119, AN 5.28; pond {the world} MN 26; rising above the water {Tathagata} AN 10.81; scent of {self-view} SN 22.89; unsmeared by water {solitude in the wilderness} Sn 1.3, Sn 1.12; unsmeared by water {sensuality} Sn 4.9. See also Flower, Water on a lotus.
- Lute, disassembled {not-self} SN 35.205
M
- Magic show {the body} Thig 14
- Magician {consciousness} SN 22.95
- Man: burning different kinds of wood {persistence and exertion} MN 90; carrying burning grass torch {sensuality} MN 54; pursuing a woman {unworthy teacher} DN 12; repaid by king {feeling} Miln II.3.9; returning home after long absence {kamma} Dhp 219; seeking heartwood {seeking the Buddha} MN 18, MN 138; seeking heartwood {appropriate attention} SN 22.95; seeking heartwood {not-self} SN 35.193; with borrowed goods {sensuality} MN 54;
- Man & woman in love {desire}“: MN 101
- Meat thrown into a fire {brevity of life} AN 7.70
- Merchant with caravan {avoiding evil} Dhp 123
- Middle of the sea {stillness of mind} Sn 4.14
- Milk: {evil deed} Dhp 71; from a cow {self-view} DN 9; from a cow’s horn {wrong view} MN 126. See also Cow.
- Mirage: {the body} Dhp 46, Thig 14; {perception} SN 22.95
- Mire, person stuck in the {ignorance} MN 8
- Mirror of the Dhamma {stream-entry} DN 16
- Money {uposatha observance} AN 10.46
- Monkey: caught in tar trap {mindfulness} SN 47.7; in forest {heedlessness} Dhp 334; swinging from branch to branch {untrained in Dhamma; inconstancy of mind} SN 12.61, Sn 4.4
- Moon: {arahant} Dhp 413; {good will} Iti 27 (a), (b); {heedfulness} AN 10.15; {jhana} Dhp 387; full {arahant} Thig 1.3; set free from a cloud {heedfulness, skillfulness} Dhp 172, Dhp 382, Iti 74; waning {unvirtuous person} DN 31, SN 5.10; waxing {virtuous person} DN 31;
- Morning star {good will} Iti 27
- Mother risking life for child {good will} Sn 1.8
- Mountain: of gold {sensuality} SN 4.20; of solid rock {arahant} Ud 3.4, Thag 14.1 of solid rock {imperturbability} AN 6.55; of solid rock {restraint} Dhp 7;
- Mountains crushing in from all directions {brevity of life} SN 3.25
- Mules, tamed {self-tamed person} Dhp 322
- MuΓ±ja grass {resolve and determination} Sn 3.2
- Mural painted on wall {the body} Thig 14
- Murderer with sword: {disenchantment} AN 6.103; {heedfulness} AN 7.46
- Mustard seed: {passion} Dhp 407; {sensuality} Dhp 401. (Note: the famous parable in which the Buddha instructs a grieving Kisa Gotami to fetch a mustard seed from the first household she can find that has never known death is found in the Commentaries to Thig 10.1 (ThigA X.1) and Dhp 114.)
N
- Noise from a soft catskin bag {speech} MN 21
O
- Ocean: an abode for mighty creatures {Dhamma-vinaya} Ud 5.5; crossing over the {arahant} Iti 69; slope of ~ floor {progress of Dhamma practice} Ud 5.5; greatness of {stream-entry} SN 13.8; intolerance to dead bodies {unvirtuous person} Ud 5.5; many treasures of {37 wings to awakening} Ud 5.5; middle of ~ is calm {stillness of mind} Sn 4.14; polluted by a pot of poison {abuse towards the Tathagata} Iti 89; salty taste of {release} Ud 5.5; stability of {restraint of the Vinaya} Ud 5.5; steady level of {nibbana} Ud 5.5. See also Flood.
- Oil from gravel {wrong view} MN 126
- Oil lamp: depends on wick and fuel {feeling} SN 36.7; flickering of {six senses} MN 146
- Ornament of gold {arahant} AN 4.28
- Ox: {suffering} Dhp 1; {person who doesn’t listen} Dhp 152; eating corn {sensuality} SN 35.205; joined by a single yoke {sense-bases and their objects} SN 35.191
P
- Painting of a woman or man: {not-self} SN 22.100; {nutriment} SN 12.64
- Palm leaf dropping away {aversion}: Iti 88
- Palm tree: with top cut off {awakening} MN 105; uprooted {awakening} MN 49, SN 22.3, SN 41.7, SN 44.1.
- Pastures {mindfulness} MN 33, AN 11.18
- Path, man showing the {Tathagata} SN 22.84
- Peacock {jhana} Sn 1.12
- Peg in drum {listening to Dhamma} SN 20.7
- Person looking down from a rocky crag {wise person} Iti 38
- Person reflecting on another {higher knowledges} AN 5.28
- Person riding a small wooden plank in the great ocean {laziness} Iti 78
- Pillar at a bathing ford {wise person} Sn 1.12
- Pit of embers: {intellectual intention} SN 12.63; {sensuality} MN 54, Thig 14
- Plow {discernment} Sn 1.4. See also Yokes.
- Poison {evil deeds} Dhp 123
- Poison, man drinking: {restraint} MN 105; {volition} Miln II.3.11
- Polished shell {life as a bhikkhu} DN 2, DN 11, DN 12, MN 36, MN 125, Ud 5.6
- Pond {integrity}: delightful, SN 3.19; haunted, SN 3.19
- Pool of water: clear or mudddy {mind} AN 1.45-46; in a mountain glen {arahant} DN 2, DN 11, DN 12, MN 39
- Poor person: {fetters} MN 66; {speech} AN 10.24
- Pot: flattened metal {nibbana} Dhp 134; of pickled greens {passion} Thig 1.1; smashed by stone {delusion} Sn 3.2
- Potter or potter’s apprentice {supranormal powers} DN 2, DN 11, DN 12
- Potter’s clay vessels {inevitability of death} Sn 3.8
- Princes of wattle-and-daub towns {heedfulness} AN 10.15
- Prison, man released from {hindrances} DN 2, DN 11, DN 12, MN 39
- Propagation of plants {aggregates} SN 22.54
Q
- Quail snared by a rotten creeper {attachments} MN 66
R
- Rabbit caught in snare {fetters} Dhp 342
- Raft {eightfold path}: MN 22, SN 35.197, Sn 1.2
- Rafters of house: {defilements} Dhp 153; {heedfulness} AN 10.15
- Rag, saving the good part of a {subduing hatred} AN 5.162
- Rain: {austerity} Sn 1.4; entering hut {passion} Dhp 13; from a cloud {generosity} Iti 75; from a thunderhead {discernnment} AN 4.102; sent by devas {brevity of life} AN 7.70; stilling a cloud of dust {silencing one’s thoughts} Iti 87, Thag 15.1
- Rams butting heads {contact} Miln II.3.8
- Reeds or rushes: destroyed by their own fruit {defilements} SN 3.23; drawn from their sheaths{supranormal powers} DN 2, DN 11, DN 12; matted {craving} AN 4.199.
- Reflection of one’s face in mirror {mind-reading} DN 2, DN 11 DN 12; {”I am” with possessiveness} SN 22.83
- Reservoir with four inlets and outlets {virtuous conduct} AN 8.54
- Rhinoceros horn {solitude in the wilderness} Sn 1.3
- Rich person {speech} AN 10.24
- Riddle tree {purity of vision} SN 35.204
- Ridge-pole of house {ignorance} Dhp 153
- River: {craving} Dhp 251, Iti 109; flow down to the sea {heedfulness} AN 10.15; carrying everything with it {brevity of life} AN 7.70; swift current {hunger} Sn 4.15, {hindrances} AN 5.51; gives up its name upon reaching the sea {going-forth} Ud 5.5; person swept away by a {not-self} SN 22.93. See also Flood.
- Road: {eightfold path} MN 33, AN 11.18; dangerous {evil deeds} Dhp 123
- Rock: broken in two {sphere of nothingness} MN 105; in wind {wise person} Dhp 81
- Roots, medicinal {craving} Dhp 337
- Rubbish pile with lotus {Buddha} Dhp 58
- Rust eating iron {evil deeds} Dhp 240
S
- Sack full of grains {the body} DN 22, MN 119
- Salt: in water {evil deed} AN 3.99; taste of ocean {Dhamma} Ud 5.5
- Sand castles {aggregates} SN 23.2
- Saw used by an attacking bandit {patient endurance} MN 21, MN 28
- Seed: {conviction} Sn 1.4; bitter {wrong view} AN 10.104; capable of sprouting {kamma} AN 3.33; mustard ~ {sensuality} Dhp 401; mustard ~ {passion} Dhp 407; rotting in a field: SN 5.10; sweet: AN 10.104. See also Mustard seed.
- Seedling not watered {change & alteration} SN 22.80.
- Seizure {anger} Dhp 251
- Servant murdering his master {not-self} SN 22.85
- Shack, flammable {mindfulness/awareness} SN 35.202. See also House.
- Shadow that never leaves {kamma} SN 3.4, SN 3.20, Dhp 1
- Sheaf of barley thrashed repeatedly {foolish person} SN 35.207
- Sheaves of reeds {dependent co-arising} SN 12.67
- Ship left ashore over winter {fetters} SN 22.101
- Shore: far {nibbana} SN 35.197; far {external sense media} SN 35.200; near {self-view} SN 35.197; near {internal sense media} SN 35.200. See also Stream.
- Shot with arrow {craving} Sn 2.10, Sn 4.1; {present kamma} MN 101
- Shuttle {wise person} Sn 1.12
- Silversmith {purifying the mind} Dhp 239, Sn 4.16
- Sick man, taking pity on a {hatred} AN 5.162
- Slavery, man freed from {hindrances} DN 2, DN 11 DN 12, MN 39
- Snake: giving one’s hand to a poisonous ~ {sense-restraint} MN 105; pulled from its slough {mind-made body} DN 2, DN 11; shedding its skin {defilements} Sn 1.1; water-snake bites man {wrong grasp of Dhamma} MN 22
- Snapping one’s fingers {equanimity} MN 152
- Snare {delusion} Dhp 251
- Sound of drums {clairaudience} DN 2, DN 11, DN 12
- Soup tasted by ladle {wise person and fool} Dhp 64
- Space gathered under the term “house” {form} MN 28
- Spear {good-will} SN 20.5
- Spider snared in its own web {passion} Dhp 347
- Spitting {equanimity} MN 152
- Spring-fed lake: See Lake.
- Staircase build at a crossroads {wrong view} DN 9
- Stallion. See Horse.
- Stick thrown up into the air {rebirth} SN 15.9
- Stone ball thrown into wet clay {mindfulness} MN 119
- Storekeeper {perception} Miln II.3.10
- Storm cloud {evil} Thag 14.1
- Stream: sinking in the middle of {passion} SN 35.200; snared by a whirlpool {sensuality} SN 35.200; washed up on high ground of {conceit} SN 35.200; See also Shore.
- String, ball of {craving} AN 4.199; thrown against a door {mindfulness} MN 119; unwinding to its end {end of suffering} DN 2.
- Strong man: nourished on royal food {foolish person} Sn 4.8; extending his arm {appearance/disappearance of devas} DN 20, SN 6.1, SN 6.2; extending his arm {equanimity} MN 152;
- Suckling calf going to its mother {desire} Dhp 284, Ud 7.4. See also Cow.
- Sun: dispelling the dark {absence of delusion} Iti 88; filling the sky {heedfulness} AN 10.15; filling the sky {awakening} Ud 1.3; speed of {death} SN 20.6
- Sunlight: {merit} Iti 27; {virtue/concentration/discernment} Iti 59; not landing on ground {consciousness} SN 12.64
- Surgeon: see Doctor
- Swans: flying {enlightened ones} Dhp 175; taking off from a lake {mindful ones} Dhp 91.
- Swift pair of messengers {samatha-vipassana} SN 35.204
- Sword drawn from its scabbard {mind-made body} DN 2, DN 11, DN 12
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- Tall building in central square {passing away and re-appearance of beings} DN 2, DN 11, DN 12, MN 39
- Tangle: SN 7.6
- Tangled skein {craving} AN 4.199
- Tank filled with water {supranormal powers} AN 5.28
- Tendon in fire {perception of the unattractive} AN 7.46
- Thief shot with spears {consciousness} SN 12.63
- Thoroughbred. See Horse.
- Thundercloud: {conviction} SN 3.24; {discernment} AN 4.102
- Tortoise evading a jackal {sense-restraint} SN 35.199
- Track of ox {kamma} Dhp 1
- Trades. See Crafts and Trades.
- Trader watching over a fine steed {self-training} Dhp 380
- Trail in space {arahant} Dhp 254
- Travel: from village to village {recollection of past lives} DN 2, DN 11, DN 12, MN 39; in desolate country {hindrances} DN 2, DN 11, DN 12, MN 39
- Treasure, doorways leading to {doors to the Deathless} MN 52, AN 11.17
- Tree: changing {inconstancy} MN 146; gold {the body} Thig 14; growing back after having been cut {craving} Dhp 338; growing on mountain {craving} AN 3.48; haven for birds {conviction} AN 5.38; killed by vine {vice} Dhp 162, {three unskillful roots} AN 3.69; leaning to the east {virtue} SN 55.22; overcome by wind {restraint} Dhp 7; pliant {the mind} AN 1.47; shedding its leaves {solitude in the wilderness} Sn 1.3 (a, b); with delicious fruit {sensuality} MN 54; with roots cut {aggregates} Thig 5.8
- Tuning a stringed instrument {right effort} AN 6.55
- Turban or head on fire, person with {aroused persistence} AN 6.20 (a, b), AN 10.51, Thag 1.39
- Turban tightening around one’s head {pain} MN 36
- Turner or turner’s apprentice {mindfulness} DN 22
- Turtle lanced by harpoon {the perils of fame} SN 17.3
- Tusker: see Elephant.
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- Uprighting what had been overturned {stock exclamation of appreciation of the Dhamma} DN 2, DN 12, DN 16, DN 31, MN 4, MN 41, MN 57, MN 58, MN 72, MN 75, MN 107, MN 135, SN 3.1, SN 7.2, SN 7.6, SN 7.14, SN 7.17, SN 12.48, SN 35.127, SN 42.2, SN 42.3, SN 42.6, SN 42.8, SN 42.9, SN 51.15, AN 3.65, AN 3.72, AN 4.111, AN 4.184, AN 10.176, AN 10.177, Ud 5.3
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- Warrior: {celibacy} AN 5.75, AN 5.76; {Buddha} Dhp 387; untrained {hindrances} SN 3.24, {worthy monk} AN 4.181
- Waste-water pool {ignorance} AN 4.178
- Water: container filled to brim {mindfulness} MN 119 (a, b); drawn from a pond {stream-entry} SN 13.2; drops in a hot pan {mindfulness} MN 66, {equanimity} MN 152; filling a jar {evil} Dhp 121; person sinking in {factors of awakening} AN 7.15; ripples {preoccupations} Sn 4.15; rolling off a lotus leaf {equanimity} MN 152, {dukkha} Sn 4.6, Dhp 336, {sensuality} Dhp 401, {greed} Iti 88;
- Weigher holding a scale {virtuous conduct} AN 8.54
- Well in desert {nibbana} SN 12.68
- Wet piece of wood {mindfulness} MN 119
- Wheels: four {prosperity} AN 4.31; of cart {kamma} Dhp 1
- Wild deer: {arahant} Ud 2.10, {sensuality} MN 26
- Wind: blowing across the sky {feeling} SN 36.12; blowing cotton fluff {dukkha} Sn 3.8; blowing leaves from a tree {awakening} Thag 17.2; coming out of bellows {exertion} MN 36; overcoming a tree {restraint} Dhp 7; unsnared by a net {solitude in the wilderness} Sn 1.3, {wise person} Sn 1.12
- Winnowing {faults of others} Dhp 252
- Woman meeting her father-in-law {urgency} MN 28
- Wood scrap {the body} Dhp 41
- Wounded man wandering in jungle {restraint} SN 35.206
- Wounds, dressing {restraint} MN 33, AN 11.18
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