The search for a Teacher

Biography The Most Venerable

Phratepyanmahamuni (Luang Phaw Dhammajayo)

: The search for a Teacher

 

In 1963, at the age of nineteen, he was preparing to take the entrance examination for university-level studies. The young man made a decision to go to Wat Paknam Bhasicharoen to meet Khun Mae Acariya Chandra to study the Dhammakaya Meditation. When he arrived at the temple, he asked different people, “Does anyone know Khun Mae Acariya Chandra?” but no one knew. They told him:  “There is no Khun Mae Acariya Chandra. There is only a Teacher Chandra.” This made him think that these were two different persons. Since he couldn’t find her, he concentrated his efforts on the entrance exam. He passed the exam and was accepted at Kasetsart University.

 

In the first semester, he was very focused in his studies.  Later, at the end of the first semester, his thoughts of meeting Khun Mae Acariya Chandra resurfaced. So, he decided to go bake to Wat Paknam again in October 1963, but was still unsuccessful in locating her. Later, someone suggested that, if he wanted to learn how to meditate seriously, he should learn from a senior monk who would be glad to teach the Dhammakaya Meditation Technique. After practising meditation for a period of time, he discovered, from a fellow meditator of the same age, that Khun Mae Acariya Chandra was Teacher Chandra. So, he was taken to meet Teacher Chandra.  Finally, they both had the opportunity to meet one another.

Discovering a Teacher who showed Him the Way to Peace

When he first met Khun Yay (Khun Mea Acariya Chandra), she was very fifty-three years old. She looked like an ordinary nun, who was very thin, but whose eyes were brilliant and bright; a sign of someone with extreme knowledge. She was firm, strong, powerful, and brimming with kindness. Although she was not educated or literate, she could provide clear profound answers to deep Dhamma question. Her profound answers brightened people’s minds, made them stop and think and removed them from the strong influences of the ways of the world.

 

On their first meeting, the young man believed that he had found the teacher who he had been searching for, for such a long time. Therefore, he requested, with confidence in her, to be her student. Later, Khun Yay said to him, “You are the one whose birth Luang Phaw Wat Paknam asked me to request during the World War period.” This statement was unclear to him, but the words that Khun Yay said were accurate since he was born during World War II.

From that point on, Chaiboon felt confident that he had chosen the right teacher because the knowledge he received from Khun Yay enabled him to address and settle everything he once questioned. This also inspired him to spread the peace found in Buddhism, to the whole world. This helped make the big dream that he had, when he was a child, come to fruition.

Any doubts or questions that the young man had in his mind, he would ask Khun Yay and she would be able to answer everything, above and beyond his expectations, which raised his spirits even higher. This encouraged him to spread Buddhist teachings and bring peace and harmony to the whole world.

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