Ven. Acariya Mun - Spiritual Biography + photos

When it came time to go on almsround, Ãcariya Mun found an excuse to address the monk. “I can see how earnest you are in pressin ...

picious, being as yet unaware of the whole story. He wondered why Ãcariya Mun treated that monk with a deference he had never se ...

The other monk was stunned. “Oh, my gosh! What is it between you and those women?” “Nothing,” answered the monk, “except blindly ...

directly to Ãcariya Mun about it; his friend never mentioned it to anyone else; and Ãcariya Mun kept the whole thing to himself. ...

liaisons. There can be no doubt that an enduring karmic bond existed between them. The monk once told his friend that mere eye c ...

monk with an especially bold, resolute character came to see him in Chiang Mai, Ãcariya Mun used this teaching technique to good ...

tice, could have expected to receive expert advice, for meditation was his field of greatest expertise. His knowledge and unders ...

until, finally, he emerged victorious. Wherever he found the kile- sas still having the upper hand, he made an effort to upgrade ...

The Boxer When Ãcariya Mun accepted a group of monks as his students, he held regular meetings where he instructed them in the w ...

gathered to eat, he came in and immediately began speaking about the new arrival. “This monk came here for the express purpose o ...

your thoughts now that you are here? Please tell me the truth, or else I won’t be able to let you stay on here. I’ve never exper ...

When the other monk finished speaking Ãcariya Mun con- tinued: “So what do you have to say for yourself? It’s not that I want to ...

took up the questioning in an effort to help him regain his mental focus: “Don’t you mean that you were a boxer in lay life, but ...

that the new monk had the ten pictures of boxers in his posses- sion. After looking at them, his friend became convinced that th ...

Living alone in particular, he encountered a myriad of mysterious phenomena far too numerous to mention. The citta in its natura ...

that is highly unlikely. It may be compared to a deep, dreamless sleep. During that time, the sleeper is completely unaware of b ...

animals – and much, much more. Fundamentally, it’s no differ- ent from seeing with the physical eyes and hearing with the phys- ...

warned to go armed and in groups lest they should be attacked by the two tigers. As it happened, Ãcariya Mun was beginning his e ...

even stood right in the middle of it. They glanced around, survey- ing the whole area for about 10 to 15 minutes, then left. Thi ...

ing branches to break off and crash down around them. They were never sure of surviving this onslaught of rain, wind, cold, and ...