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could manage to achieve it. Sensation, memory, thought and cognition: all these things must be united into one single spot. Once the mind is still, it ceases to be. Once it ceases to be, the new one can arise." He contemplated further on his finding for a long while, then afraid that his discovery would disappear he sat for a further period of thirty minutes. During this short period while he was meditating, a temple came into his vision. He remembered it at once as Wat Bang Pla, Banglain — the temple in which he had studied long ago as a boy of eleven. At that moment he felt himself already inside that temple — which made him feel sure that in this temple there might be someone ripe for the path.¹ From the following day onwards, Candasaro took the opportunity to go to Wat Bang Pla, accepting teaching engagements and supporting the ceremonies there until the end of the rains retreat. In the meantime he dedicated himself to this newfound technique of meditation. Going deeper and deeper into the interior dimensions of the meditation he had discovered, he became more and more skilful. The more he studied and practised the meditation, the more he discovered the miraculous within and the Dhamma of Lord Buddha. Meditation in the shrine hall of Wat Boatbon became his daily routine for the last months of the rains. After the end of the rains retreat, upon receiving Kathina, he bade the abbot of Wat Boatbon farewell and moved to Wat Bang Pla permanently to teach the Dhamma. After four months, three monks (Phra Sangvarna, Phra Baen and Phra Oam) and four lay people attained Dhammakāya. ¹ from ibid. p.10