Ven. Acariya Mun - Spiritual Biography + photos

a mental object to contemplate at all times – whether sitting in
samãdhi, walking in meditation, or engaging in other daily activi-
ties. He continued in this manner until, one day, the image of the
corpse changed into a translucent disk that appeared suspended
before him. The more he focused intensely on the disk, the more
it changed its appearance without pause. The more he tried to
follow, the more it altered its form so that he found it impossible
to tell where the series of images would end. The more he inves-
tigated the visions, the more they continued to change in charac-
ter – ad infinitum. For example, the disk became a tall mountain
range where Ãcariya Mun found himself walking, brandishing a
sharp sword and wearing shoes. Then, a massive wall with a gate
appeared. He opened the gate to look inside and saw a monastery
where several monks were sitting in meditation. Near the wall he
saw a steep cliff with a cave where a hermit was living. He noticed
a conveyance, shaped like a cradle and hanging down the face of
the cliff by a rope. Climbing into the cradle-like conveyance, he
was drawn up to the mountain peak. At the summit, he found
a large Chinese junk with a square table inside, and a hanging
lantern that cast a luminescent glow upon the whole mountain
terrain. He found himself eating a meal on the mountain peak...
and so on, and so forth, until it was impossible to see an end to it
all. Ãcariya Mun said that all the images he experienced in this
manner were far too numerous to recall.
For a full three months, Ãcariya Mun continued to meditate
in this way. Each time when he dropped into samãdhi, he with-
drew from it to continue his investigation of the translucent disk
which just kept giving him a seemingly endless series of images.
However, he did not receive enough beneficial results from this