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"meditate and you will find out for yourself!" The directness and harshness of her words cut through the excuses of many people and inspired them to come and meet her again. Although Khun Yay was never the one teach – she got down to the task of teaching beginning with the residual students trained up by Khun Yay Thongsuk.1 If anyone wanted to study Buddhism with her, she would instruct them in meditation – and have them meditate regularly. She wouldn’t engage them in fruitless conversation. Practice was the watchword rather than chatting. Once they started to have inner experience such as the inner spheres or the inner bodies for themselves, they would understand the knowledge of Dhamma kāya for themselves. Many were able to attain the Dhamma kāya. At that time Khun Yay lived in a rickety old wooden kuti which had originally been three storeys high, but looked from the outside like it had only a single storey. It was this kuti she had shared with Khun Yay Thongsuk. The stilts between the first floor and the ground were about four feet high – leaving space enough to crawl or sit but not to stand. The ground floor was ‘paved’ with wooden boards but was again swept spotless. People came there to meditate – the so-called ‘downstairs’. The first floor was the most spacious part of the house. Along one wall of the room was a shrine table with a Buddha image, storage cupboards and a second shrine table with a picture of Khun Yay Thongsuk, her teacher. The other side of the room was Khun Yay’s living space. It was where she meditated, slept, received guests and did the ceremony for offering ____________________ 1.An achievement also described in the academic writing of McDaniel (2006, p.110), na Songkhla (1999, p.259) and Heikkilä-Horn (1996).