It is a kind of mentality that is used by the peasants to trap and destroy monkeys. When the peasant wants to catch a monkey he uses a big pot with a narrow mouth as a trap. Inside the pot he puts edibles, which the monkey loves. The monkey finds the pot and puts its paws inside it to grasp as much the stuff as he can hold. Once it does so, it is unable to pull out its paws from the small mouth of the pot. It imagines that someone inside the pot is holding its paws, so it struggles and attempts to run away with the pot only to fall and get trapped. No one is holding the monkey; it has trapped itself because of its greed. If only it lets the stuff in its paws go, it will be free of the bondage. In the same way I tell the rich people, man is tempted by the wealth, pleasures and desires of the world. When he gets lost in such attachment and suffers the consequences of greed, he thinks that something is binding him down, capturing him, destroying him. He does not realize that he himself is responsible for this bondage. The moment he gives up material wealth and desires he will be free. I make him realize his bondage to the monkey-mind and liberate himself. (S&M, p. 248)