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2 Ordination "The majority of human beings have their eyes closed — they are still asleep. If human beings could attain Dhammakāya, they would be awake. But without attaining Dhammakāya and becoming one with Dhammakāya, they are doomed to slumber forever." (Phramongkolthepmuni) Brooding in the aftermath of his escape, his blood ran cold. He felt so moved that he lay down in the stern and made believe he was dead — that his disembodied spirit was wandering about seeking for his dead forbears and those friends he had loved. But they ignored him because they couldn’t see him — he was only a spirit. He threw clods of earth and sticks at them — but they mistook him for a ghost from the forest because they couldn’t see the perpetrator. Drifting on in his quest for this person or that, no-one could see him or would take any interest.¹ The spectre of unavoidable death forced him to examine the possibilities available to him: “Here I am. I don’t even know if I’ll be alive to see tomorrow’s sunrise — and still I’m scurrying like the rest of them for evanescent riches. On my deathbed, even the closest of relatives, the closest of friends, can but look on helplessly. Only I alone can further my own destiny.” ¹.from ibid. p.4 27