Ven. Acariya Mun - Spiritual Biography + photos

ulous, showing great attention to detail. The rules of monastic dis-
cipline were taught in detail and samãdhi and wisdom, belonging
to the higher Dhamma, were taught in even greater depth. During
the time he lived in Sarika Cave, he had already begun to master
all levels of samãdhi and all intermediate levels of wisdom. As
for the highest levels of wisdom, I shall write about them later in
the story when Ãcariya Mun’s practice finally reached that stage.
After continuing his training in the Northeast region for a while
longer, he became even more proficient. This enabled him to use
his expertise to teach the monks about all levels of samãdhi, plus
the intermediate levels of wisdom. They in turn listened intently
to his expositions, which never deviated from the authentic prin-
ciples of samãdhi and wisdom.
Ãcariya Mun’s samãdhi was strange and quite extraordin-
ary, whether it was khaõika samãdhi, upacãra samãdhi or appanã
samãdhi.^34 When his citta entered into khaõika samãdhi, it remained
only for a moment, and instead of returning to its normal state,
it then withdrew and entered upacãra samãdhi. In that state, he
came into contact with a countless variety of external phenom-
ena. Sometimes he was involved with ghosts, sometimes devas,
sometimes nãgas – innumerable worlds of existence were con-
tacted by this type of samãdhi. It was this access level samãdhi
that Ãcariya Mun used to receive visitors whose forms were invis-
ible to normal sight and whose voices were inaudible to normal
hearing. Sometimes his citta floated up out of his body and went
off to look at the heavenly realms and the different levels of the
brahma world; then, it traveled down into the regions of hell to
look at the multitude of beings tormented by the results of their
own kamma.