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"When I first met Luang Por Dattajevo, Vice Abbot of Wat Phra Dhammakaya, it was in the summer of 2008. I had gone to visit my son, Luang Pi Joshua, during his first year as an ordained monk living at Wat Phra Dhammakaya in Bangkok, Thailand. I must say that my initial meeting with Luang Por Dattajevo was a bit intimidating for me, but that was simply because I had no experience meeting with, and talking to, a Buddhist monk who knows me better than I know myself. Meetings With A Dhamma Master includes twenty talks that I have had with Luang Por Dattajevo over the course of a two year period. We have talked about everything from The Nature of the Mind, to Core Values and how habits relate to those values, to the definitions of words like Kamma andsamadhi and Kilesa. But most of all, of course, we talk about meditation. The What? Why? And How? of the Dhammakaya Meditation Technique. I have included all of these talks, as well as the general instructions on the Seven Bases of the Mind, as taught by the re-discoverer of the technique, Luang Pu Sodh Wat PakNam. Luang Por Dattajevo is the consummate teacher. My hope is that your ears, eyes and mind are open, and that I have written these teachings in such a way that you listen and understand their significance so that you can use them in your own life. I think these teachings are a gift he gave to me and I would like to give them as a gift to you." Suzanne Jeffrey