would suggest which mother and father had a matching level of merit to be their new parents. If soldiers wanted a brave child then Luang Phaw \Vat Paknam would give them the same advice to make themselves brave first of all. Some people might wonder why in some cases good children seem to be born to

lcome the birth of a child perfect in personality and Dhamma. In the time of Luang Phaw Wat Paknam there was a merchant who came to Luang Phaw Wat Paknam complaining that for many years he had being trying to have a child without success. Luang Phaw Wat Paknam asked him what sort of child he wanted.

er to work alone, so their life's achievements will never amount to much. In the words of the famous Buddhist master of meditation, Luang Phaw Wat Paknam: "to look down on others, even without realizing it, seeing others as weaker than oneself, speaking irreverendly to them, is like the gables of a

es belonging to the mundane levels of mind to which the defilements are invisible. C2 Characteristics of the Body of Enlightenment Luang Phaw Wat Paknam explained that the Dhamma Body is similar in shape and form to a EFTA00286834 TABLE 33.3: Correlation between stale of mind, inner experience & c