The Monkey Sutra

One takes a coconut and makes a hole in it, just large enough that a monkey can squeeze its hand in.

Next, tie the coconut down, and put a sweet inside. What happens next is pure attachment. The monkey smells the sweet, puts his hand into the coconut, grabs the sweet and ... the hole is too small to let a fist out of the coconut.

The last thing a monkey would consider is to let go of the sweet, so it remains there indefinitely, literally tied down by his own attachment.

Often they only let go when they fall asleep or become unconscious because of exhaustion.
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now, having said this (actually it's a quote from buddhist website), are these really sutras? maybe a sutra is a big long prayer?