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of the nature to have the vicissitudes of increase and erosion of wealth, increase and erosion of rank, praise and gossip, happiness and suffering—because even the Lord Buddha had to meet up with the unpleasant side of these things. Some even praise those who are out and out gangsters. Thus Khun Yay made her decisions on the basis of what was best rather than what would be popular or necessarily convenient. She used to say: "All my life I’ve had a very simple way of deciding what to do. I never do anything to please anyone, unless it is to please the Lord Buddha himself – because the Buddha is blessed with the ability to discern right and wrong, appropriate and inappropriate, wholesomeness and unwholesomeness. Thus I just do according to what the Buddha taught – and if anyone else reprimands me for that, even if it is everybody in town, I remain unmoved by their protests. I do things to please the Buddha alone.” Luang Phaw Dattajevo asked her, "And doesn’t that make people very angry sometimes?" "Of course it does!" "And what do you do when they are angry with you?" "I meditate going through the centre of the centre continuously aligning my Dhammakāya with the body of enlightenment of the Lord Buddha in Nirvana." Thus Khun Yay was never one to be swayed by fashion or public opinion – and this in turn is why her mind was never perturbed from a steadfast standstill. In this way she was able to lead a whole community in the spreading of the Dhammakāya tradition throughout the world in spite of innumerable hindrances. In the