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morning I was on my way back from the monastic refectory and I saw a person who was lame. Meditate to tell me if their astral body¹ was also lame!” Again Chandra was able to find the answer to his question. He never had a word of praise for anything done right. He would just say, “Err! That’s how it ought to be” when the answer was correct and would say nothing if the answer was wrong. The questions he asked got harder still. Even though Chandra had no education and had very little general knowledge of the world, yet she managed to obtain the right answers to the questions asked, because her faculty for ‘seeing and knowing’ was exceptionally precise. The others were never as precise as her be- cause they didn’t share her devotion to the meditation practice. Meditation research was her only goal and the only thing she thought about in life. All she wanted was to be able to keep up with the Great Abbot in his research. Khun Yay had to undergo extensive training before she could achieve mastery of her meditation. This applied particularly to the patience she had to exert in the face of gossip and discrimination. When Chandra first went to live in the temple community, she received very poor treatment. As a newcomer she was low in the pecking order. She was also treated badly because she could not read or write and also because of the privilege afforded by the Great Abbot, of joining the workshop so quickly. In addition, she had come from an upcountry family background and people tended to ignore her because of this. It was up to her to adapt to her surroundings rather than vice-versa and this meant particularly her