Contents

Foreword

Preface

1. The Farang Wants to Go to a Wat

2. How Big Is a Stick?

3. Samadhi Suicide: Our Example

4. Refugees in the Triple Gem

5. Sore Feet on the Noble Path

6. The Fan Man’s Rapture

7. Bhikkhu Bob and Boomer Bunte Gird Their Loins

8. What Is and Isn’t Bat Shit

9. Mind Over Menu

10. What the Buddha Never Taught

11. A Perfect Place to Hide

12. The Lone Pahkow

13. The Water Tank Is Made of Metal

14. Ajahn Chah Gives a Teaching

Glossary

List of Characters

Postscript, 2010