Buffalos’ Tears, Love You As Much As I Love Buffalos

    I graduated as a veterinary from Kasetsart University where only the handsome ones studied. But my life has turned from being a vet to a medical doctor for humans instead. At the moment I am doing my residency and I am studying cosmetic surgery. Even though I am not bright in my studies but the result of my treatment is excellent.

My patients recover very quickly. What is my secret? It’s the formula I learned from you – that is the ‘Vaccine’ for the mind that many doctors don’t know. I had a patient who suffered from cancer of the tissue, there was red rash and bleeding around the skull and it spread down to around the eyes. There would be some risk with the radiation treatment, the patient could go blind.  I treated the patient with my medical knowledge and I also used merit to help. I persuaded him to make merit by releasing fish and I gave him the CD to listen to and learn to meditate. Now he looks radiant and his condition improves very quickly. I believe that I am an efficient doctor because I have a kind teacher who teaches me every day and I promise that I will be a kindergarten student forever. I would like to present my story as a case study for your disciples in all around the world as follows:

My mother is Thai of Chinese descendant. She didn’t have faith in the Dhammakaya temple until in 1997 when she was sued and was going to put into bankruptcy. I urged her to attend a meditation retreat at Panawat in Chiengmai province.

After that she could refinance her business and was able to pay off all the debt miraculously that made her gained faith in the temple ever since.
Mother had been the biggest trader of cows and buffalo meat in Bung Seu market in Bangkok for the past 30 years. She ordered the killing of 30-40 animals almost daily for the meat to sell for 30 years. Lately she has been selling less and less and it reduced to 7-8 animals per day. She stopped ordering the killing but now she buys the organs of the animals from the slaughterhouse and sells them at the Buang Seu market instead. I kept asking her to stop this business because I felt very sorry for the slaughtered animals but she still sells them up to this day as my sister and her husband takes over the business part of selling meat from her.

In 1992 mother suffered from stage 2 of cervical cancer. Before her operation in the hospital I came to ask Khun Yay Acariya for her help to make the operation safe. That day Khun Yay asked me to write my mother’s name and gave it to her and she said she would help. After the operation my mother’s condition improved very quickly and she recovered miraculously. Mother liked to buy lands and 15 years ago she bought an approximately 500 Rai block of land in the Mount Tao Mor area in Tha Yang district, Petchaburi province from a wealthy businessman.

 

A brother of a monk has mortgaged that land and the term was coming to the end. My mother wanted to help that monk she therefore borrowed 10 millions Bahts from the bank to pay off the mortgage. And she hoped that when the monk’s brother returned the money she would return the title of the deed to him. But she learnt later that the block of land was offered to the monk to build a temple.

However, that monk transferred the title to his brother’s name. After my mother released the mortgage he never contacted her again. From that time my family had to face hardship due to the loan to pay off the mortgage on that land. On that land there was a Mount Tao Mor cave. The villagers said that it was sacred and inside there were a Buddha image and ancient treasures. My mother and I’ve never gone inside the cave because it looked messy and scary. Mother put that land up for sale for more than 10 years unsuccessfully. I used to burn incenses and said to the guardian angels that if they helped my mother to sell it, I would make merit and dedicate it to them. I was standing there by myself and the time was around 2pm, the weather was hot but suddenly there was a strong wind blown over and I felt like the guardian angels were rejoicing in the merit. My aunt (who is my mother’s first sister) is a kind person and likes to make merit. In the past she sold very delicious salty meat. But lately her business didn’t go well. Finally she changed to sell cows and buffalos meat in the market instead till this day.

One day she went with her employee to get the meat from the slaughterhouse to sell at the market. But her employee who drove the pick up truck was still under the influence of alcohol that caused an accident with the truck hitting a power pole. Her left leg, one palm above her knee was cut off immediately in the accident. The doctor couldn’t stitch it back that made her wearing artificial leg till this day. My uncle-in-law (my 2nd aunt’s husband) when he was young, he liked to drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes. Sometimes he picked up the meat from the slaughterhouse for my mother.

Some said that he sometimes killed the cows and buffalos himself just for fun even though it was not his job. How to kill the buffalo, it was to cut its throat and let the blood run dry and then started to eviscerate. The method of killing the cow is that the slaughterer would use a big hammer to hit its head many times until it collapsed then used the knife to slit its throat and let all the blood drained then they cut it up. (The reason they have to hit its head many times until it collapsed because the cow was very strong and tended to kicked the slaughterer therefore he had to hit the animal until it collapsed before he cut its throat.)

The buffalo philanderer association said that they couldn’t accept this cruelty. Later when uncle was 69 years old he became ill and got deteriorate very quickly within 2 months. He coughed and lost weight but the causes of his illness were not found. Before his death I have casted a personal Buddha image with his name on it and I have told him before his passing away, he nodded his head to acknowledge it.
Then his condition worsened gradually and he passed away without knowing the causes of his illness.

After I graduated in veterinary and worked in a vet clinic for 2 years, it was a turning point of my life when I passed the entrance exam for medicine at Chula Hospital 3 times. The first time I received the scholarship of a special program, I transferred my studied units from veterinary to medical science until I graduated in general medical science. The 2nd time I received the scholarship to study ophthalmology. I applied to a hospital in Bangkok but couldn’t study there because I didn’t make a very good mark, besides, I didn’t have any connection.
So I could only make the waiting list but if I was to study I had to work in the hospital in the northern region, which is far away. So I decided not to study and worked for 1 year to apply for a scholarship in the following year. The 3rd time I received a scholarship for cosmetic surgery studies for 6 years. This is my 6th year now. I was doing well in my studies when I was young but this day my academic outcome is quite bad and sometime my medical friends blocked me from studying important subject until the last 4 months before my graduation, the medical teaching panel decided that I was not suitable to continue to study cosmetic surgery and that I should be a general practitioner as I was before.

That day my life became obscure. Don’t be discouraged, don’t give up. At dawn everything seems blurred but after that everything looks alright.
That day I decided to visit a teaching monk (Phra Acariya Chatchai) who advised me to go back and discuss with the medical teacher once more and the situation will change miraculously. When I did that the head teacher told me that he would give me another chance but I am not sure whether I will complete my studies or not.