title: Handful Of Leaves: Four Volumes - Volume 1: An Anthology from the Digha and Majjhima Nikayas; Volume 2: An Antholgy from the Samyutta Nikaya; Volume 3:An Anthology from the Anguttara Nikaya; and Volume 4: An Anthology from the Khuddaka Nikaya
author: Thanissaro Bikkhu (Geoffrey DeGraff)
description: Paperback: 1511 pages Publisher: Sati Center for Buddhist Studies (2003) Language: English ASIN: B000O2NUHO Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1 inches Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
zlib_text: > > HANDFUL _of_ LEAVES
  
  > VOLUME FOUR
  
  > An Anthology from the
  
  > AṄGUTTARA NIKĀYA
  
  > Translated by
  
  >  _Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu_
  
  >  _(Geoffrey DeGraff)_
  
  > > _Once the Blessed One was staying at Kosambī in the siṁsapā forest. Then,
  > picking up a few siṁsapā leaves with his hand, he asked the monks, “What do
  > you think, monks? Which are more numerous, the few siṁsapā leaves in my hand
  > or those overhead in the siṁsapā forest?”_
  
  >  _“The leaves in the hand of the Blessed One are few in number, lord. Those
  > overhead in the forest are far more numerous.”_
  
  >  _“In the same way, monks, those things that I have known with direct
  > knowledge but haven’t taught are far more numerous (than what I have
  > taught). And why haven’t I taught them? Because they aren’t connected with
  > the goal, don’t relate to the rudiments of the holy life, and don’t lead to
  > disenchantment, to dispassion, to cessation, to stilling, to direct
  > knowledge, to self-awakening, to unbinding. That’s why I haven’t tau