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they said they wanted to purchase about twenty acres of land for the sake of building a Buddhist temple, this lady was overwhelmed and refused to sell any part of her land. She would not rent it to them either. She said that she would instead give them the whole of this land, four times more than they had asked - and this was to be the start of the Dhamma Practice Centre.1 Subsequently, Ven. Dhammajayo asked Khun Yay about the feasibility of a temple where hundreds of people would come and hundreds of monks would stay. Khun Yay asked Khun Phadet the amount of money that would be necessary to set up that sort of temple. Khun Phadet replied that it would be around 100 million Baht. Khun Yay meditated and came back with a confident grin saying that whether the number coming to the temple were in the hundreds or the thousands, out of her great compassion she would be able to provide for all of them. Khun Yay then proudly brought out the brown envelope she had been using for collecting donations. This was the money they were going to use to build the temple. They counted it and found there was only 3,200 Baht (~USD$80). Khun Phadet asked her, "How can we build a temple with only 3,200 Baht?" Khun Yay asked him, "If you received a budget of 100 million Baht from the government for training people to be virtuous and to devote their lives for Buddhism like you and the team; how many people would you get?" Khun Phadet replied that one could not be certain of training even a single good person - even if one had a hundred million Baht. Khun Yay told him with a grin that 1.Soon putthajak patipat thamm