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Attaining Dhamma: meditative attainment; a state of absorption in meditation where the mind achieves super insight and knowledge; knowing and seeing according to the truths. Attaining the Dhammakaya: a state of absorption in meditation where the mind achieves super insight and knowledge, having penetrative insight into the reality of life and the world; seeing and becoming one with one’s own inner Body of Enlightenment. Blessings (mangala): prosperity; auspiciousness; good omen; anything that is conducive to success. Buddha: “awaken one” who is fully enlightened and who has realized Nibbana without the benefit of a Buddha’s teaching in the lifetime in which he attains it. Those who attained enlightenment by following the Buddha's teachings are called Arhat or Arantas. The name Buddha is a generic term, not a proper name, meaning ‘awakened’, ‘unlearned’. Buddhas appear at vast intervals of time. There are countless numbers of past, present and future Buddhas. Buddhakajj Center: former name of the Dhammakaya Temple. Chand: Khun Yai’s first name; a Thai word which means “the moon”. Dhammakaya: Body of Enlightenment; Body of Truth. Dhammakaya meditation is a profound meditation technique taught by Luang Por Wat Pakarn. Khun Yai carried on the Dhammakaya meditation tradition and passed it on to her student, Luang Por Dhammayao, current Abbot of the Dhammakaya Temple. Dhamma (Skt., Dhamma): the truth; the natural condition of things or beings; the law of their existence; the ethical code of righteousness; the whole body of religious doctrines as a system; the Teachings of Buddha; the eternal truth that Buddha realized, his verbal expression of that truth, and the phenomena or concepts that compose reality. Noy: ‘Khun’ Yai frequently used the term “Dhamma” to refer to the practice of meditation. Field of merit: recipient of alms; a virtuous recipient is compared to a fertile field which yields abundant production; monks and virtuous people are examples of good fields of merit.