Ven. Acariya Mun - Spiritual Biography + photos

following morning when that monk went to see him, he ordered
him to take the cigarettes away. He said that he would not smoke
them since they were owned in common by many different people.
The monk in question assured Ãcariya Mun that the cigarettes be-
longed to him alone, since he had told a lay supporter to buy them
with his own money the day before. He specifically had them pur-
chased as an offering for Ãcariya Mun, so they could not possibly
be owned in common by many people. Ãcariya Mun reiterated
that he wanted them taken away. Being owned in common by
many different people, the offering was not ‘pure’, so he did not
want to smoke them.
Not daring to press the issue any further for fear of being
rebuked, the monk was obliged to take back the cigarettes. He
sent for the lay supporter who had purchased them for him and
asked what had happened. It turned out that this layman had
taken money belonging to many different monks, all of whom
instructed him to buy some necessity or other. He had used the
money left over from those purchases to buy the cigarettes. The
monk asked him for the names of the monks whose money was
involved, and then hurried off to find them. Once he explained
about the mix-up with the cigarettes, each was more than happy
to see them offered to Ãcariya Mun. So the monk took the cig-
arettes and once more offered them to Ãcariya Mun, confess-
ing that he was really at fault for not questioning the layman
thoroughly about the matter first. He acknowledged that Ãcariya
Mun was exactly right: the layman confirmed that he had taken
money belonging to many different monks and put it all together
to make various purchases. Since all the monks had been asked
and were happy to share the offer of cigarettes to Ãcariya Mun, he