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he exclaimed: "Just a moment ago, someone among us was very keen on transferring merit — to the extent that he even transferred merit for his Preceptor who has still not left this world!" In the case that Luang Phaw had any personal criticism, he would deliver it personally — not in front of the rest of the congregation. For serious matters, offenders would be asked to leave the temple without anyone else's knowing. Luang Phaw continually found new ways of checking the temple at night so that no one could predict his routine. Some nights Luang Phaw would go for his rounds wearing nothing more than his under-robe (angsa) and would stand on watch in the shadows with a lighted stick of incense, the glowing end of which looked like a cigarette. No one would pay this monk any attention, for they knew that Luang Phaw would be fully robed whenever outside his kuti and never smoked. Once he caught a novice smearing himself with talcum powder and asked casually whether he had spots. The novice said he didn't. Luang Phaw told the novice never to use cosmetics in the manner of a householder again. For other shirkers, the distant scent of incense from upwind at night was enough to tell them that their laxity had been discovered by Luang Phaw on his rounds. Another night Luang Phaw passed the nuns' compound. One of the nuns had invited a friend to stay overnight in her room to study the Precepts. Luang Phaw saw that it was already late, but the light