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6 Teaching the Tradition "Ever since being ordained in my youth and after all these years in the monkhood, there is nothing more sacred than meditation in the Dhammakāya tradition." (Phramongkolthepmuni) Although Luang Phaw's life was heavily burdened with commitments, he kept to a strict daily schedule in order to perform all the duties expected of him without sacrificing time for instructing his close disciples in meditation. He would instruct the monks and novices in their morning and evening chanting and give a sermon on the Dhamma vinna ya to the assembly morning and evening. On Sundays and quarter-moon days he would preach in the main chapel. He would supervise the teaching of advanced meditation. At 2.00 p.m. on Thursdays he would teach meditation for the benefit of monks, novices and laypeople in the main hall, with a cumulative total of at least 40,000 people coming for tuition over the course of the first fifteen years—only during the Second World War did he shift the venue for meditation teaching to the house of Nah Saiyud Peankertsuk, close to the temple—but teaching went on interrupted and returned to the Vihara again after the War. He would organize the teaching of Pali and scripture in the Pali Institute. Last, but not least, he would receive guests after the midday meal at noon and again in the evening at 7.00 p.m.