Ananda
c. 500 BCE
Gautam Buddha's personal attendant, and cousin.

cousin on father's side--their fathers were brothers.

traveled with Buddha for 20 years until Buddha's
death

said to have a great memory, was the disciple who
recited Buddha's talks to be written down by others.

considered to be the 2nd Zen patriarch, after
Mahakashyapa, the 1st.
 One day Buddha was moving in a forest with his
disciples. Ananda asked him, "Bhagwan, have you
said everything that you know?"

So Buddha takes some leaves from the ground into his
hands--some dead, fallen leaves – and he says,
"Whatsoever I have said is just like these few leaves in
my hand, and whatsoever I have not said and have left
unsaid is like the leaves in this forest. But if you follow,
then through these few leaves you will attain to this
whole forest..."

                                                      --Osho
                      The Ultimate Alchemy, Vol. 2, ch. 16
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