It is said that the great Luang Phor Derm of Wat Nong Pho was a very skilled preacher of the Dhamma. He was brilliant at delivering sermons as well as solving Dhamma riddles, and can explain the teachings so well that the villagers could understand.
Luang Phor Derm was regularly invited around to preach and had been a preacher for several years. He would be invited event after event.
But one day, he suddenly stopped delivering Dhamma sermons.
Whenever his disciples asked him, he just went “Just being busy going around to teach others, wasting their money. Never even teaching oneself.
From now on I have to teach myself.”
From then, Luang Phor Derm stopped preaching and rejected all such invitations. In his 9th to 11th pansa (rains), Luang Phor went to study and practice Vipassana kammathan with Luang Phor Ngern of Wat Phra Pang in Nakhon Sawan.
Luang Phor has always practiced seriously. For instance, he always sat up straight. This is in line with the Pali verses “Nisidati pallankam abhujitva ujum kayam panidhaya parimukham satim upatthapetva so satova assasati sato passasati” which translates to the meditator “sitting down, having folded his legs crosswise, set his body erect and established mindfulness in front of him."
Since then, Luang Phor sat up straight all the way until the ripe old age of 90.
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