September 25, 2546 B.E.
No Luang Pu, an Unthinkable Thought
It is now sixteen days until the Rains-Exit Day. Time is passing by so quickly. Every person on earth has the same twenty-four hours a day for Perfections pursuit and for increasing one’s physical, verbal, and mental purity. Everyone has the same twenty-four hours a day regardless of his race, creed or economic status. However, the time spent accumulating merit is different for different persons. Most people have no idea why they are here and what is their true life-goal. Some may have an inkling of why they are here but they are too reckless to make the time and effort to accumulate merit.
But the Inner Dreams Kindergarteners are different. They eagerly accumulate merit because they know to a certain extent that they are here to make clear the Path and Fruit of Nibbana and to pursue Perfections. And so they are always accumulating merit. They do so on a daily basis, a weekly basis, a monthly basis, and an annual basis as well as during important days in Buddhism. Some people are inconsistent in their endeavor. Sometimes they are eager. At other times they slack off. For those who are always eager, they consistently pursue Perfections knowing that with each passing day, their time on earth is decreasing. These persons are praiseworthy.
If the Most Venerable Luang Pu Phramonkolthepmuni (Sodh Candasaro) did not discover Vijja Dhammakaya, the situation would have been unimaginably dire for everyone. One’s life would have simply drifted along. There would have been no one to confirm the specific and systematic meditation practice as taught by the Lord Buddha which can lead the practitioner to attain the Dhammakaya. There are forty meditation techniques mentioned in the Tipitaka. There are other meditation techniques mentioned in the Visuddhimagga but nothing specific is given. Should one decide to practice a particular technique and get stuck at a certain point, one will be hard pressed to find anyone that can help one to get unstuck Therefore, meditation practice had been confined to the monks who undertook Dhutanga or those who possessed a high level of Perfections.
It is not until our Most Venerable Luang Pu has discovered Vijja Dhammakaya that one can confidently practice meditation. The reason is that Luang Pu has confirmed that the Path and Fruit of Nibbana can be found inside one’s self by keeping one’s mind completely still and quiet at the seventh base in the center of one’s body. Once one’s mind can be brought to a complete standstill, one will attain the Pathamagga Sphere, other Dhamma Spheres, the different Inner Bodies, namely, the Refined Human Body, the Celestial Bodies, the Form Brahma Bodies, the Non-Form Brahma Bodies, the Gotarabhu Dhammakaya, the Sotapanna Dhammakaya, the Sakidagami Dhammakaya, the Anagami Dhammakaya, and the Arahat Dhammakaya respectively.
Each person has altogether eighteen coarse and refined bodies. All of the Inner Bodies can be attained only when one’s mind has been brought to a complete standstill. Luang Pu has already given us specific details of how to attain the Dhammakaya such that anyone can practice it. All that one has to do is to keep one’s mind still and quiet. There is nothing else that one must do. Stillness Is the Key to Success.
