Title of the Book : หน้า 48/163

Buddha must bring ease and prosperity to all those practicing in the proper way. The majority of you have been ordained for many, many years but still have insufficient knowledge to teach — all you have done is clung like a parasite to the religion without doing anything of use to others. Moreover you have sullied Buddhism in the eyes of the faithful — being ordained like this is like being a hermit crab which wanders spineless from one refuge to another for protection — in such a case what’s the use of being ordained, or even coming to live in this temple? In coming to stay at Wat Paknam, it is my intention to exemplify the Dhammavinaya in all that I do. It is up to the older monks here to choose whether or not to follow my example. You can join me or you can do whatever you like. It is not my intention to disturb anybody because we all hold that we are responsible for our own actions. If you choose not to join me, then kindly do not impede the efforts of the others. We are independent but we must all help to keep this temple in order. Anybody who comes or goes must take my leave. We will let bygones be bygones because that was before my arrival, before taking up this post — but now that I am here, I have my duty to fulfil..." Giving that sermon was like releasing the headwater. For the monks in the temple it had been throwing down the gauntlet. That night in privacy, in front of the shrine of the main chapel, Luang Phaw meditated and then made this resolution: "May any monk still to come, come quickly to join this temple. May any monk already here stay all of his life."