One of the top 10 greatest
Guru monks of the country is Luang Phor Chong of Wat NaTangNok, BangSai district, Ayuthaya
province. He passed away on the Buddhist important MaKhaBuCha day of February 17th,
B.E.2508, with the age of 93. Luang Phor Chong and Luang Phor Parn of Wat BangNomKho are
close friends and respected high Dhamma practices of each other. They had the same
teachers viz LP Soon of Wat BangPlaMoh and LP Paan of Wat PikulSokant. Even Luang Phor Parn reached extremely high miraculous knowledges of
"Apinya" and "Wipassana", he still often admired Luang Phor Chong as a
good great monk. Once in the evening Luang Phor Chong was taking a rest at the pier in
front of his temple, a small group of men rowed across the canal. After tying a boat robe
to a pier hook, one said unrespectably to Luang Phor Chong,"Luang Phor, would you
guard my boat because I was told that so many thiefs around here." The old Luang Phor
Chong said slowly and mercifully to that man," Alright, I'll guard your boat as
mine...don't worry."
The group of men came back to the pier at around midnight, they saw Luang Phor Chong still
sat alone at the pier. "Wow, how great it is, you're still sitting here so many
hours, I thank you for guarding my boat," said a man. "You ordered me to guard
your boat, I completely did it," Luang Phor Chong said slowly to the man.
But at the evening of the next day, the men came to Luang Phor Chong's Kuti(monk's house)
with flowers, incenses and candles on their hands. They had paid obeisance to Luang Phor
Chong and said " I come here to apologize you for ordering to guard my boat, I have
been told that the you are Luang Phor Chong, so please apologize all of us for doing a
great sin, please grant us your apology."
" Huh,huh...alright man...you ordered me and I did it for you ...it's no sin
.....from now on remind yourself do not order any monk as your servant," said Luang
Phor Chong. He also taught them a short brief of Buddha's Dhamma. All the men listened
quietly and wept, then they pay obeisance with full respect to Luang Phor Chong's legs.
Luang Phor Chong was a great donor. Any temple troubled with lacking of Kutis, he would
order his monk disciples dismantle them and brought to the lacking temple. Even thiefs
came into his temple to steal some thing that's difficult to get, Luang Phor Chong knew
that and called them to get it.Yes, he gave stuffs to thiefs but never forgot to taught
them that stealing monk's stuffs was a great sin. Many thiefs gave up stealing by his
teachings.
Luang Phor Parn of Wat BangNomKho admired Luang Phor Chong to all his disciples that he
was like a gold monk statue, and that a monk of this kind one should never beg anything
from him because he would give everything that was begged for. Whenever Laung Phor Parn
performed any religious ritual at his temple, he would invite Luang Phor Chong to join.
Once Luang Phor Parn urged his close monk disciple to go by a motor boat to invite Luang
Phor Chong to join a ritual , but Luang Phor Chong told the monk to go back in advance and
he would go by himself later. As soon as the monk had come back and reported to Luang Phor
Parn that Luang Phor Chong would come later, Luang Phor Parn laughed mildly and pointed to
Luang Phor Chong who was sitting right there!!
How did he come with a short time? It's many miles distance
between the two temples, if going by walking it would take a few hours. It was recorded
that Luang Phor Chong reached the highest knowledge of "PatiSamPhiThaYan" which
covered highest ability to perform miracle of all kinds. Whoever reaches this state will
have comprehensive knowledges over all Tri Pitaka automatically and could rush to anywhere
in a short time.
Luang Phor Chong created many kinds of amulets since the WW II, such as medals, small
statues, ivory-tusk Rajasihas, metal Ta Pian fish , sacred jackets, etc. His amulets are
very good for warding off dangers of all kinds, while his Ta Pian fish is good for fortune
fetching. |