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green radiance shone from the hole. Luang Phaw picked up the crystal ball and enshrined it in the main chapel. They paid respect to the crystal ball with jasmine flowers. The crystal ball was indeed the size of a durian, incredibly clear but gnarled. The crystal ball remained within the chapel for six days and then on the seventh night, an unseasonal storm whipped up around the temple. A tremendous flash of lightning struck the chapel and the crystal ball was gone leaving only the white cloth. Luang Phaw mused: "Our perfections are still weak. We have still not conquered the dark side. Our hardship must continue because we are still riddled with defilements. Our wisdom is still imprecise. For this reason the crystal ball has slipped our grasp." The third time Luang Phaw detected a crystal ball beneath the temple, again the team dug as close as it could. Every time they came close it would sink deeper into the bowels of the earth with a tremendous groaning as it moved inexorably through the bedrock. As they came closer, the crystal ball disappeared and all that was left was a nest of cobras which attacked the nuns, biting them mercilessly without respite. The crystal ball was gone for good. Luang Phaw used meditation to cure the nuns. He protested: "They will not fight us face-to-face and yet they will not give in to us." On another occasion, Luang Phaw brought a mango seed into the meditation workshop, for an experi-