Dhamma from Achan Thong - The Leaves in the Hand

What should be the deeds of followers of the Buddhist religion? Deeds are preformed through the agency of body, speech, and mind. The mind is the most important. To follow the Buddha’s teaching, we need to follow it completely. We think of the Blessed One, who asks “Monks, which is more, the leaves in my hand or those in the forest?” The leaves in the Buddha’s hand are few. Those in the forest, the whole world, and the whole universe are numerous.

The Buddha states that words of his teachings offered to us are only a handful of leaves. The briefest summary of what the Buddha teaches is abandoning evil, doing good and brightening the mind. He teaches us to do good and refrain from doing wrong.

Training the mind in insight meditation is doing supreme good. Thus, our development of insight meditation with fourfold mindfulness is regarded as the highest goodness. Let us appreciate the worth of practicing vipassana or insight. Such practice constitutes dwelling in all of the Buddha’s teachings.

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