Ven. Acariya Mun - Spiritual Biography + photos

Aren’ t you afraid it will sink its teeth into your neck and make a meal of you? If you don’t want to be tiger food, then you be ...

faculties cease to function at that time, meaning they are totally unaware of all external sense impressions. This monk’s citta ...

for me. As soon as someone died in the village I was aware of it, knowing straightaway that the next day I’d have to make anothe ...

ONCE ÃCARIYA MUN had settled in the monastery at Ban Nong Pheu, he was contented to encourage the community of dhutanga monks pr ...

advice, could see him on any day. Monks wanting to ask ques- tions about their practice were advised to approach Ãcariya Mun at ...

much as possible. The secure environment he offered to his dis- ciples meant that their practice was unlikely to go astray. Con- ...

I have mentioned my own coarse, callous nature here to let the reader know just how low the heart can sink when loaded down with ...

Buddhasãsana, from the theory and practice of Dhamma to its inner realization. And this in an age when genuine disciples of the ...

ance reminds a dhutanga monk not to be careless by thinking in ways that contradict the very virtue he is trying to develop. On ...

dhutanga practices are, after all, designed to counteract the kile- sas, so people from all walks of life should try their best ...

seeing an end to the kilesas, from the most vulgar ones to the most refined, should never overlook the dhutanga observances, thi ...

standing: no matter how much you fertilize and water that tree, it is impossible to make it sprout and flower again. This old de ...

warned them that medicines were useless for his illness; that only firewood for cremating the corpse was appropriate. But the mo ...

and meticulous, this monk had to decide what action was appro- priate in each instance and then see that the other monks care- f ...

dejected, they were not so cheerful as before. Every conversation began with the topic of Ãcariya Mun’s illness and moved on to ...

by the flow of his all-encompassing Dhamma, radiating forth in every direction. He began by paying tribute to the 1,250 Arahants ...

no idea what the true virtues of a Buddhist monk really are. If they understood the meaning of the Pãåimokkha exhortation that t ...

here. The assembly of monks sat perfectly still the entire time he spoke, no one making the slightest sound to interrupt the cad ...

when he could no longer walk at all did he stop going for alms. Even then, he continued to eat just one meal a day, which he too ...

ning of the rainy season retreat that year. When it became obvi- ous that his illness had become very debilitating, we conferred ...