Dhamma Practice
He later moved to Bangkok to study the Scriptures. He practiced in each school but was not satisfied. In the eleventh year of his ordination, he stayed at Wat Bangkuvieng, Nonthaburi Province, during the rainy season. There, he began to practice meditation by himself using the Visuddhimagga.
He reflected to himself that he had been practising meditation for eleven long years and had still not understood the essential knowledge which the Lord Buddha had taught. Thus, on the full-moon day of September 1918, he sat himself down in the main shrine hall of Wat Bangkuvieng, resolving not to waver in his practice of sitting meditation, whatever might seek to disturb his single-mindedness. It is claimed that while meditating far into the night, he allowed his mind to go deeper and deeper through the pathway at centre of the sphere, until he discovered the dhammakāya (dharmakaya), the most refined of the inner bodies, which is eternal and free from defilement.
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