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face of obstacles she would neither fight nor run away, but continue to do as many virtuous deeds as ever. There was also quite a lot of preparation for the re- ception of Sunday’s congregation which needed to be done in the eighty acre area of the temple—whether it be setting out rubbish bins or scrubbing the toilets. In the olden days Khun Yay would demonstrate how to clean the toilets personally. However, for later generations, proper use of the toilets became inte- grated into the textbook of Buddhist culture taught to all newcomers staying at the temple. Indeed, new- comers continue to be impressed by the cleanliness of the temple’s restrooms even down to the present day. Some had never seen such a clean restroom at other public facilities before. It was volunteers’ pride to clean the temple’s restrooms, which they called “cleaning the celestial mansion [vimāna], with her secret that “the deeper you clean into the toilet bowl, the brighter your mind.” The toilets which Khun Y ay took the most care of were the ‘toilet block of twenty’ almost opposite her own kuti. She would lead the volunteers herself, teaching them to scrub ‘all the way down the U-bend’. Armed with a scotchbrite and washing powder they raced to complete the task. It was rarely the habit of Khun Yay merely to explain how to do something, but when she was training volunteers she would show them by example how it should be done. Especially when they saw the tremendous pride with which Khun Yay herself went about this task, they were in- spired to follow her example. Furthermore, Khun Yay would explain to them that if they did everything to the very best of their ability this lifetime round, next lifetime would go smoothly without having to redo