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For Kindle Users: [Cropped] Teachings of Ajahn Chah
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This is a modification of the Teachings of Ajahn Chah PDF (a free compilation of Ajahn Chah's teachings) to better fit 6" Kindle screens. If anyone else can make use of it, all the better! 
As an alternative to converting the PDF to another format (conversions aren't perfect), I've cropped the pages of the PDF as close to the text as I could, removing the extraneous header/footer and page number. Image pages like the cover have not been modified. This makes the Teachings of Ajahn Chah more accessible to 6" Kindle users, though the text is still small (improves view in landscape mode also).
I've also attached a comparison showing the difference. Since the 6" Kindle always tries to fit the entire page on its small screen (and the zoom function is pretty worthless for actual reading), it helps a lot to get rid of all that extra space!
Homepage: http://www.ajahnchah.org/ (for everything Ajahn Chah including the unmodified PDF)
[Cropped version attached below next to the comparison image.]
As an alternative to converting the PDF to another format (conversions aren't perfect), I've cropped the pages of the PDF as close to the text as I could, removing the extraneous header/footer and page number. Image pages like the cover have not been modified. This makes the Teachings of Ajahn Chah more accessible to 6" Kindle users, though the text is still small (improves view in landscape mode also).
I've also attached a comparison showing the difference. Since the 6" Kindle always tries to fit the entire page on its small screen (and the zoom function is pretty worthless for actual reading), it helps a lot to get rid of all that extra space!
Homepage: http://www.ajahnchah.org/ (for everything Ajahn Chah including the unmodified PDF)
[Cropped version attached below next to the comparison image.]
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When we give rise to right view in our hearts, we can be at ease wherever we are. It's because we still have wrong views, still hold onto ideas that are poisonous, that we're not at ease. Holding on in this way is like being a maggot. Where it lives is filthy; its food is filthy. Its food isn't fit to be food — but it seems fitting to the maggot. Try taking a stick and flicking it out of the excrement where it's feeding, and see what happens. It'll wiggle and wriggle, eager to get back to the pile of excrement where it was before. Only then does it feel right.
It's the same with you monks and novices. You still have wrong views. Teachers come and advise you on how to have right view, but it doesn't feel right to you. You keep running back to your pile of excrement. Right view doesn't feel right because you're used to your old pile of excrement. As long as the maggot doesn't see the filth in where it's living, it can't escape. It's the same with us. As long as we don't see the drawbacks of those things, we can't escape from them. They make it difficult to practice.
"In Simple Terms: 108 Dhamma Similes", by Ajahn Chah, translated from the Thai by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Access to Insight, 4 April 2011, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/thai/chah/insimpleterms.html . Retrieved on 25 October 2011.