Super Perfection Pursuer

Dear Luang Phaw whom I respect the most,

            I am a perfection pursuer of the pioneer generation, and I have walked on this virtuous path since my very young age because of my mother. I have got the chance to accumulate merit since at Paknam Bhasicharoen Temple until Dhammakaya Temple. I sacrifice my life to make merit with my mother, not only do I make it myself, but I also invite others to make merit with me.  

        In these recent years, I haven’t got any chance to come to the temple because my mother can no longer come here; therefore, I have to take close care of her. Nonetheless, I still do not allow myself to miss any merit. I give somebody money and ask him to make merit for me. It is greatly fortunate that Dhamma satellite is created which gives me the chance to listen to Dhamma through the Dhamma satellite. Presently, I am a student of Dream in Dream Kindergarten. Today, I send my case to ask for Luang Phaw’s mercy to please dream about my story.

        I have 5 siblings, and I am the 2nd child. Formerly, my parents ran a dry cleaning business. Our family is generous and likes to make merit starting from my grandparents, my parents and us, their children. Since I started memorizing thing, I could remember that my mother liked to make merit at Paknam Bhasicharoen Temple. And when she went to the temple, she never forgot to bring my grandfather and us with her. Back then, Venerable Luang Pu Sod was still alive.

        After Luang Pu had passed away, my mother still kept pursuing perfection with Khun Yay at Dhammaprasit House since year 1963 (B.E.2506). I got the chance to support the ordination of both Luang Phaws at Paknam Temple. Afterwards, Khun Yay built Dhammakaya Temple and moved here, so my mother brought my grandfather and us here as well, to continue pursuing perfection with her. So our generation is called the pioneer.

        We took a part of building the chapel, the fences, depositing the boundary marking stones at the temple’s front gate, building Catummaharajika pavilion, informing people to support casting the principle Buddha image in the chapel, concreting the chapel, its fences and the 8-direction poles of the boundary marking stones. I have participated with every merit and never ever miss even a single merit throughout 40 years.

        Until the temple was extended to 2,000 Rais (3,200,000 Square Meters), I partially built the thatched Sapha Dhammakaya Hall, bought the land until this present Great Sapha Dhammakaya Hall is established, built 3 principle poles of Dhmmakaya Cetiya, cast 100 personal Dhamma images and invited other people to cast more than 100 personal Buddha images. We also attended the merit of casting Luang Pu’s golden statue. To make this merit, my mother donated 1000-kilogram gold. Besides, I donated 250,000 Baht (about $7143 when $1=35 Thai Baht) to build Luang Pu’s Vihara. I also perform a great number of merits. These are all my merits.

        At the beginning, when the merit of permanent millionaire was not set up, my mother would invite people to buy sacks of dry rice and sugar to offer to the temple. At the first Sunday of each month, she would put rice into food carrier to offer monks at the temple. Until later, the merit of permanent millionaire was set up, my mother then makes this merit every month a without missing even a single month up to this present time.

        Since she has turned 70s, many diseases come to her, e.g. blood pressure, Rheumatoid and Thyroid. She also tumbles so many times that her legs become weak and has to sit in a wheelchair to come to the temple. However, she still laments that only if she were stronger, she could do more works for the temple. The latest time she came to the temple was the merit of 3000 delights. After that, she could not come to the temple anymore.

        Presently, she is 78 years old and starting being forgetful. She can barely eat because she has lost all of her lower teeth and her gum does not have an edge which does not allow her to have false teeth. After finishing food, she would only lay down. It is also difficult for her to defecate, so I have to take close care of her.

        After coming to the temple with my mother persistently for tens of years, my grandfather suffered from diabetes at his old age and passed away when he was 80 years old.

        My father likes to make merit. He usually offered food to monks on alms-round in front of the house, but he also liked to worship the Chinese gods. He was always healthy and liked to travel by himself around Bangkok to buy some trifling things for the house. One day, he was found tumbling in China town. Back then, he was 80s years old. The person who found him brought him to a hospital. 

        From then on, he became weak. We, children, could not take care of him because we all were busy, and I had to take care of my mother, so he was sent to a nursing home. Later, he spoke incoherently and became indistinct. He often saw that Chinese gods and goddesses that he worshiped before visited him. The doctor mentioned that these symptoms happened because of the incident that he tumbled, so he needed a head surgery to have liquid removed. We consulted each other whether we should give him a surgery because he was already old, and we were scared that we would lose him.

        But before we got the conclusion, one day, he sat in bed with legs down and inserted them into the bed’s side metal. I have no clue how he did, but that broke his legs. Hence, the doctor made a judgment that he must get 2 treatments at once, i.e. a head surgery to remove the liquid in his head and a leg surgery to place metal into his legs. After the surgeries, he was safe and could regain some memory skill. Presently, he is 92 years old, and his memory is a lot worse. He cannot remember what he wants to remember, and cannot forget what he wants to forget.

        And he barely agrees to walk. He cannot defecate and still under the control of the nursing home. My grandmother was generous and liked to make merit. She loves her descendants so much and was even nice to other people. At her 70s years of age, in an evening, while she was standing talking to the neighbor in front of the house, unexpectedly, she felt like something speedily came into her body, and she then started having pains at both side of her hip. The pains were so torturing that she could not stand them.

        My mother invited a doctor in the same neighborhood to give her an injection. The doctor said “She is addicted to morphine.” even though she never got involved with any drug. My mother took her to a hospital. A nurse gave her a small pill. After taking that pill, my grandmother told my mother that “The doctor gave me a wrong medication.”, and she then asked my mother to find some morning glories to pound with brown sugar and squeeze it for the liquid and then let her have that liquid in order to eliminate the medication. But because it was late at night, my mother had no clue where to find them, so my grandmother did not have the chance to drink morning glory liquid. Throughout that whole night, she complained that she was tired and kept standing up and sitting down repeatedly. In the next morning, she passed away.

        When my eldest brother was small, my mother held him and gave him a bath. But due to being her first child, she did not really know the correct way to give a bath to a baby. Water got into his ears for many times, so when he grows up, his both ears can barely hear. He got many surgeries, but the symptom does not get better.

        This brother of mine is nice. He loves his parents and siblings. He got a chance to further education overseas, and when he finished it and came back to Thailand, he paid attention to his work and helped our mother to support his siblings’ education. He is tender and very nice to people. Even to a friend that nobody wants to associate with, he still associates with him. To himself, he is fugal; but to others, he loves to help them. He is really a wonderful brother.

        Because of this behavior, he was asked by his friend to stand surety for him. After the transaction, that friend ran away, so my brother had to take this responsibility and was sued which was so bad that he might be bankrupted. Up to now, this lawsuit is still unfinished.

        My youngest sister was a very cute girl who liked to make merit like our mother. Whenever she saw our mother’s friends visiting our house, she would know spontaneously that those ladies must invite our mother to make merit for sure. Therefore, she got closer to them to listen to their conversation and follow our mother to make merit every time. She paid homage to the triple gems without being told. Nevertheless, she had the chance to accumulate merit until she was only 5 years old because she passed away by dengue fever after only 9 days of sickness.

        My uncle is a retired government official. He is very clean and very methodical even the way he parks must be specific. Well…safety always comes first for him.

        When he is 50s, he starts getting worried about everything. Before going somewhere, he has to turn around undecidedly because he is scared that he might forget something. But he likes to make merit and makes every merit my mother tells him. His health is not good because he has suffered with asthma since his childhood. After getting married, he does not have any child.
      
        His wife liked to make merit by giving alms to people. At first, she was healthy, but she later suffered from thyroid and socialized with people who liked spiritual incarceration which caused her to be interested in it like her friends. She traveled to many places to visit mediums until she afterwards got a mental problem which changed her behavior. She gibbered, liked to wear old and dirty clothes like an unaware person. She liked to smoke a lot and said that she was incarcerated by a spirit. My uncle took her to a hospital for a treatment, but when she came back home, these symptoms came back to her and never go away. Presently, she is taken care of by my uncle.