Truck Load of Falling Leaves On My Path

In recent practice, I found various obstacles on my path. The obstacles are
like full of falling leaves ahead of me. They are afflictions accumulad from the
past and need to be cleaned up and purified. The meditating images in my
practice are like the photo above.

This also reminds me the teaching by Ven. Ajahn Sumedho, I would like
to share it with my Dharma friends who has a similar problem like what I do :

A HANDFUL OF LEAVES

The Blessed One was once living at Kosambi in a wood of simsapa
trees. He picked up a few leaves in his hand, and he asked the
bhikkhus,  ‘How do you conceive this, bhikkhus, which is more, the
few leaves that I have picked up in my hand or those on the trees in
the wood?

‘The leaves that the Blessed One has picked up in his hand are few,
Lord; those in the wood are far more.’

‘So too, bhikkhus, the things that I have known by direct knowledge
are more;  the things that I have told you are only a few.

Why have I not told them? 
Because they bring no benefit, no advancement in the Holy Life,
and because they do not lead to dispassion,
to fading, to ceasing,
to stilling,
to direct knowledge,
to enlightenment,
to Nibbana.
That is why I have not told them. 

And what have I told you?
This is suffering;
this is the origin of suffering;
this is the cessation of suffering;
this is the way leading to the cessation of suffering.

That is what I have told you.
Why have I told it?
Because it brings benefit, and advancement in the Holy Life,
and because it leads to dispassion,
to fading, to ceasing,
to stilling,
to direct knowledge,
to enlightenment,
to Nibbana.

So bhikkhus, let your task be this:
This is suffering; this is the origin of suffering; 
this is the cessation of suffering;
this is the way leading to the cessation of suffering.’

[Samyutta Nikaya, LVI, 31]

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