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    One morning, several months after my arrival at Wat Pa Baan Taad, a Theravada Buddhist monastery of the Thai Forest tradition, I stood at the railing of the main sala waiting for the monks to begin their early morning alms round. We had just finished our cleanup duties and put on our robes in preparation for the walk to the village. Our teacher Luangta Maha Boowa, who would be leading us on alms round, was there giving the monks instructions and admonishing them as usual. I, meanwhile, stood with my eyes closed meditating, inwardly focused and disengaged from my surroundings. I had been a monk for several years by that time, and meditation was my life. It was the activity that I prized above all else. I considered myself diligent in my practice and was pleased with my results. After all, meditation was what Buddhism was all about. Or at least that was what I assumed at the time.

    Suddenly the sharp crack of Luangta’s voice broke through my seemingly blissful reverie. I opened my eyes to find him pointing a finger directly at me and exclaiming something in a loud voice to the senior monk next to him. Because the conversation was in Thai, and I was not yet fluent in the language, I did not understand the meaning of what was said. But I knew it pertained to me, and that got my at

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    THERAVADA

    Main Temple: Wat Pah Bahn Tahd
    c/o Songserm Service
    89 Phosi Road. Udon Thani 41000 Thailand

    Web site: main: www.luangta.org

    Centres: Wat Pa Bahn Tahd

    Teachers: Ajahn Pannavaddho, Vice-abbot (English; age 65). Probably depiction most high up western brother in Thailand.
    Pannavaddho was give someone a jingle of interpretation first bhikkhus to be alive and work out in say publicly Hampstead Vihara with Kapilavaddho Bhikkhu expect the 1960’s. Wrote rendering “Wisdom see Samadhi “

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    Straight evade The Heart
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    Forest Dhamma
    Wisdom Develops Samadhi
    Mode Of Training Of Acharn Mun

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    But by the end of the retreat, I still had not attained. My visions had always prophesied accurately before, but I began to suspect that this one had lied to me. Being somewhat frustrated, I decided to ask a fellow monk who I trusted what he made of the discrepancy. He immediately retorted that I must calculate a full year: from the beginning of the sixteenth rains retreat to the beginning of the seventeenth. Doing that gave me nine more months of my sixteenth year. I was elated by his explanation and got back to work in earnest.

    Having been gravely ill for many months, Ajaan Mun passed away shortly after my sixteenth rains retreat. Ajaan Mun was always close at hand and ready to help resolve my doubts and provide me with inspiration. When I approached him with meditation problems that I was unable to solve on my own, those issues invariably dissolved away the moment he offered a solution. The loss of Ajaan Mun as a guide and mentor profoundly affected my hopes for attainment. Gone were the easy solutions I had found while living with him. I could think of no other person capable of helping me solve my problems in meditation. I was now completely on my own.

    Fortunately, the current of Dhamma that flowed through my meditation had reached an irreversible stage. By May of the