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throughout the Great Abbot's life — like the legendary 'thoroughbred' of the Buddhist Scriptures which seeing its fellow horses whipped already learns its lesson.¹ It doesn’t have to be whipped itself. While doing research, Khun Yay Chandra and Khun Yay Thongsuk discovered a technique by which they could reap untold merit by offering sustenance directly to the Lord Buddha’s body of enlightenment in Nirvana. They started a tradition of offering sustenance² in this way, to the Buddhas of the past, present and future, ceremonially once a month and as a way of performing ‘grace’ before every meal. In fact, this tradition in its superficial form was already present in Thai tradition — usually consisting merely of putting food on the shrine as an offering to the Lord Buddha. However, in the Dhammakāya Tradition, making this offering through meditation was to become an identifying feature of the tradition down to the present day. One day some supporters offered the Great Abbot a rare fan made of peacock feathers. It was a very beautiful one and he brought it to the meditation workshop as prize someone in the ‘workshop group’ could win by drawing lots. At that time there were more than a hundred in the meditation workshop. The fan would be the prize for the most adept meditator. Although he knew the one worthy of winning it should be Khun Yay, he democratically allowed everyone in the workshop the chance to draw lots for it, as a test of their psychic feats. He merely made the wish to himself that the most accomplished would be the one to receive the prize. Khun Yay 1. Patoda Sutta A.ii.114 2. Puja kao phra 50