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her friends met Ms. Tao who was conducting meditation classes in the evenings. Ms. Tao taught them the 'Dham- makaya' method whereby a crystal ball was used as their focal point or object of meditation to reach the 'centre of gravity' within themselves. According to Dham- makaya Principle, "the 'centre of gravi- ty' is one's purification point and foutain of wisdom. Thus, if one can train one's mind to keep continuously still at this point, one's mind is not only purified but one can see innate brilliance there. It is this brilliance that enables one to see the truth at certain level of pro- foundity, as a result, intelligence is au- tomatically emanated, as is enlighten- ment to a certain degree." Ms. Leng was very surprised at herself that she could progress in medita- tion so fast, when she was the sort of person that could not sit still for two minutes! Also she was very pleased with her progress because she had never succeeded before when she tried to medi- tate from books. At the end of three months, her 'crystal ball' was bright and clear. And she said, "This is the first time in my life I felt the innate peace and tranquility which always seemed to elude me." A fortnight later, that was two weeks prior to her travelling from Singapore to join the Kathin Festival, while meditating she gained wonderful experience, she said, "I had seen a 'Buddha Image' which was made of crystal within my crystal ball. At one stage I could feel มกราคม ๒๕๓๒ myself sitting behind the Image, looking at the crystal line formations on his shoulders! When I related this to my teacher, she revealed that most of the Buddha Images at Wat Phra Dhammakaya were in crystal form. So there we are! Since she has seen the Buddha Image-that is to say she has attained to Dhammakaya, she feels very happy, and realises more fully the profoundity of Buddhism and Dhammakāya meditation. She and her teacher have since become great friends and have firm faith in the doctrine of rebirth. Ms. Leng asserted, "We believe that previously without any way of escape from the cycle of rebirth, my life was so bad that I never had even a small chance to make 'Merit' for a better life the next time round. Thus we intended to participate in the Kathin Festival. Now I am at Wat Phra Dhammakaya." Kalyanamitra.org Ms. Leng and her teacher stayed at the Wat for three days. She was very impressed by the different people and the different lifestyle, she said, "Wat Phra Dhammakaya is not a five-star hotel, the living conditions are spartan, but the knowledge I gain from this experience will stay with me for the rest of my life. The temple and grounds are well kept, and efficiently managed. The Abbot, Vice Abbot and 'Kuhn Yai' whom I had the very great priviledge to กัลยาณมิตร ๗๑