Discovering a Teacher
who Showed Him the Way to Peace

When he first met Khun Yay (Khun Mae Acariya Chandra), she was fifty-three years old.  She looked like an ordinary nun, who was very thin, but whose eyes were brilliant and bright; a sign of someone with extreme knowledge.  She was firm, strong, powerful, and brimming with kindness.  Although she was not educated or literate, she could provide clear profound answers to deep Dhamma questions.  Her profound answers brightened people’s minds, made them stop to think, and removed them from the strong influences of the ways of the world.

On their first meeting, Chaiyaboon believed that he had found the teacher who he had been searching for, for such a long time.  Therefore, he requested, with confidence in her, to be her student.  Later, Khun Yay said to Chaiyaboon, “You are the one whose birth Luang Phaw Wat Paknam asked me to request during the World War period.”  This statement was unclear to him, but the words that Khun Yay said were accurate since Chaiyaboon was born during World War II.

From that point on, Chaiyaboon felt confident that he had chosen the right teacher because the knowledge he received from Khun Yay enabled him to address and settle everything he once questioned.  This also inspired him to spread peace, found in Buddhism, to the whole world.  This helped make the grand dream that he had, when he was a child, come to fruition.

Everything that was in Chaiyaboon's mind, if he had any doubt or question, he would ask Khun Yay and she was able to answer everything, above and beyond his expectation, which raised his spirit even higher.  This encouraged him to want to spread Buddhism and bring peace and harmony to the whole world.