(keywords) (slightly edited version) naive hope, succumb to feeling hopeless, cynicism, protection from chaos, buoyed up, ‘Reading The Natural Mind’, wanting and craving, hopefulness and hopelessness, sati-pañña, accuracy of awareness, lashings of cream, floods of maple syrup, repression, feeling without becoming, deconstructing the deluded sense of self, storehouse of wholesomeness and purification, gauging a monk’s competence, festival days, strength, stability, worldly winds, praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, honour and insignificance, agility, DDB, denied dukkha backlog, compulsive controlling, default strategy for coping with denied pain, traverse the territory of denial, essay, caught off-guard, puffed up, off hand, lineal logical, tricky, deviousness, Master Hsuan Hua, Wat Bovorn, teacher’s job is to trick you, stories, Ajahn Chah, frustrating, spiritual games, Mara wants us to play games, the Buddha wants us to wake up.