“They’re just like monkeys!” “You shouldn’t climb trees. If you do, you commit an offense of wrong conduct.” On one occasion a certain monk was walking on a road through the Kosalan country on his way to Sāvatthī when he was blocked by an elephant. He quickly went up to a tree, but being afraid of wrongdoing, he did not climb it. Soon the elephant went away. When he arrived at Sāvatthī, he told the monks what had happened. They in turn told the Buddha. “I allow you to climb a tree to the height of a man if there’s something to be done, or as far as you need if there’s an emergency.” At this time there were two monks called Yameḷa and Kekuṭa, brothers born into a brahmin family, who were well-spoken and had good voices.