Ven. Acariya Mun - Spiritual Biography + photos

the way of practice. You will just make yourself a nuisance to him
for no good reason. You may well receive a reprimand – don’t say
I never warned you! Ãcariya Mun is not that kind of monk. He
is a genuine monk, sincerely teaching people to know the differ-
ence between right and wrong, good and bad, virtue and evil. His
teaching never deviates from the path of Dhamma. His way of
practice and knowledge of Dhamma are true to the teachings of
the Lord Buddha. No one else nowadays can convey such incredi-
ble ideas as he has presented me from our discussions on Dhamma.
That has been my experience. I hold an immense respect for him
in my heart, but, I have never told him this. Nevertheless, he may
already know of it from his powers of intuition.
“Ãcariya Mun is a monk truly worthy of the highest respect,
and is unquestionably ‘an incomparable field of merit for the world’.
He himself never makes claims of noble attainments, though this
is apparent to me when we discuss Dhamma in private. I am
wholly convinced that he is firmly established in the third level of
the Noble Dhamma. It is obvious from the way he expresses him-
self. Although he has never made statements of his specific level
of attainment, I know for certain what it is: for the knowledge of
Dhamma he has conveyed to me is absolutely consistent with that
level as described in the Buddhist texts. He has shown me nothing
but loyalty and respect, and I have never known him to be in any
way stubborn or disdainful. He conducts himself with such humility
that I cannot help but admire him from the bottom of my heart.”
These were the words of praise that Chao Khun Upãli
addressed to the lay followers, monks, and novices after Ãcariya
Mun gave his Dhamma talk and returned to his hut. Afterwards,
monks who were present reported this speech to Ãcariya Mun, who