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the house knowing it was in safe hands. She was so much in Khun Nai Liap’s confidence that Chandra, rather than her own children, was the one to be entrusted with the key of the family strong-room, where all the family’s cash and jewellery was kept! It was a room inside which only Khun Nai Liap herself and Chandra were allowed. Chandra was patient and in the long run, her opportunity to start her study of meditation came in the personage of the (then) laywoman teacher Thongsuk Sandaengpan. . Upāsika Thongsuk was thirty-six when they met — nine years older than Chandra. She was burly in appearance and tough having survived a childhood of considerable hardship. According to the usual protocol, she had been accepted into the meditation workshop of Wat Paknam, which in those days was no easy matter. She had had to pass an inquisition by a senior already adept enough to meditate there. They had asked her questions impossible for the man in the street to answer — questions only those who had already attained the Dhammakāya would have any chance of answering. The questions ensured that those entering the meditation workshop had already steadfastly attained the Dhammakāya. The questions were not designed for people or even angels to answer but were fathomable by the inner body of enlightenment alone. Nevertheless, Khun Yay Thongsuk had been allowed to conduct meditation research because her meditation attainment was considerable. The family invited this teacher from Wat Paknam because besides being able to conduct meditation research, the Great Abbot had entrusted her to teach