《173》曾经有人问阿姜 查，他是否是阿罗汉。阿姜 查回答：「我像森林里的一棵树，鸟儿来树里，在树枝上栖息和吃它的果实。对鸟儿而言，果实也许是甜的或酸的。可是，树本身并不知道，不管鸟儿说是甜的或酸的都无妨，但从树的观点来看，这都不过是鸟儿的唠叨罢了。」

Once a visitor asked Ajahn Chah if he was an arahant. He said, "I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree; they sit on its branches and eat its fruit. To the birds the tree may be sweet or sour or whatever. But the tree doesn’t know anything about it. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree’s point of view, this is just the chattering of birds."