Ven. Acariya Mun - Spiritual Biography + photos

been the foundation of my conscious existence. I am continuously extending the spirit of loving kindness and dedicating the frui ...

yampiccaÿ na labhati tampi dukkhaÿ: not getting what one wants is truly a form of dukkha. Everyone realized that whether he went ...

sible. After he had announced his decision and stated his reasons, and there being no dissenting voices, the monks and laity who ...

us forever in unbearable sadness.” They were almost inconsolable at that point. In his great compassion, he sympathized with how ...

less spirit of the occasion. Walking along in complete silence like mourners in a funeral procession of a close friend or relati ...

In fact, he appeared to be lying fast asleep, though of course he wasn’t sleeping at all. Around midday, the procession reached ...

The stretcher (covered with a white canopy) carrying âcariya Mun’s dying body from Ban Nong Pheu to Ban Phu, accompanied by scor ...

the procession eventually reached Ban Phu monastery shortly before dark. The journey had taken all day because we followed the m ...

His senior disciples repeated their reasons and he remained silent, only to bring it up again later. Time and again he demanded ...

arrive in time for that critical moment which is now fast approach- ing. I have no wish to shoulder the burden of this flaming m ...

afraid that, in his condition, he might never wake up again. At the time none of us there with him could figure out his reason f ...

me to Sakon Nakhon. I want to quickly rid myself of this messy heap of suffering. The symptoms are fully obvious now. If you sti ...

They felt as if their own lives were losing all meaning. At the beginning, Ãcariya Mun was lying on his right side in the ‘lion’ ...

Seeing no apparent signs of life, Chao Khun Dhammachedi rather tentatively said, “I think he’s passed away.” At the same time he ...

hut was illuminated by brightly-lit lanterns, his disciples stum- bled around blindly in dejection, unsure where they were going ...

burning issues invariably dissolved away the moment he offered a solution. This salient recollection, so deeply engraved on my h ...

him to the point of death. This kind of longing is the way of worldly people everywhere. Even though my reason for missing him i ...

were determined that it be conducted in a manner reflecting his exalted status as a distinguished ãcariya, greatly revered natio ...

irrespective of what it was or how much it may have cost. In terms of actual poverty, perhaps no monk was poorer than Ãcariya Mu ...

All the various functions connected with Ãcariya Mun’s funeral were organized with the generous cooperation of the local populac ...