Conclusion
Practicing monks in the lineage of Ãcariya Mun tend to prefer
living in mountains and forests. Leading the way in this life-
style himself, Ãcariya Mun encouraged all his disciples to do the
same. By nature, he was fond of praising the virtues of life in
the wilds. He said the reason he preferred such places was that
knowledge and understanding of Dhamma was much more likely
to arise while he lived in remote forest areas than while staying
in congested ones. Crowded, congested places are hardly condu-
cive to calm and contentment in the practice of Dhamma. Even
the Dhamma that his disciples are teaching today was earned
practicing at the threshold of death in that same wilderness
environment.
In the physical sense, Ãcariya Mun died many years ago.
Nevertheless, disciples of his who naturally possess the medita-
tive ability to perceive such phenomena still regularly experience
visual images of him arising spontaneously in their meditation, just
as if he were still alive. Should one of them experience a problem
in his practice, a visual image of Ãcariya Mun will appear to him
while he is meditating, demonstrating effective ways to solve the
problem. He appears to be sitting there in person giving advice,
much in the same way that past Arahants came and instructed
him on the various occasions I mentioned earlier. When a monk,
whose practice has reached a certain level, finds a specific prob-
lem that he cannot solve himself, a visual image of Ãcariya Mun
appears and advises him on that very question, and then disap-
pears on its own. After that, the monk takes the teaching that
Ãcariya Mun has given him, analyzes it carefully and uses it to