Luang Phor Samruay sends his greetings to all luksits☺️.

Luang Phor Samruay sends his greetings to all luksits☺️. 

Just spoke with him via video-call yesterday and found out he is being visited by his friend Lersi Pu Piak. Not to be confused with Luang Phor Piak, another tudong monk friend of his. 

Pu Piak is a great artist and spends his time sculpting and building Buddha statues both at Samnak Song Tham Sai as well as his own Samnak in Prachinburi. In fact, he enjoys his work so much that he wants to focus on building Buddha statues and may disrobe and give up the Lersi vows.

Pu Piak is also very well-versed in Khom or Khmer Sanskrit, which he uses to write yants. He is very popular for his yants and many villagers will flock to him whenever he arrives at Samnak Song Tham Sai. Pu Piak is also an expert in reading palms. 

Luang Phor is intending to upgrade the electrical system at Tham Sai temple and Pu Piak contributed some of his amulets for Luang Phor to pluksek. Hence, Luang Phor has started empowering the amulets since yesterday with Phuttakhun energy.  

I will be returning to Thailand towards the end of June after celebrating both my father’s and mother’s birthday in Singapore. Parents are also as important as the Sangha, without my parents raising me I won’t be able to have so many opportunities to make merit. 

So I am truly grateful to them and am happy to stay here for a while to celebrate their birthdays with them. 

But I am still in the process of finding a small room for Luang Pu so that as I continue to split my time between Thailand and Singapore, all luksits of Luang Pu can learn to meditate and pick up free amulets to connect to Luang Pu.

Story of Luang Phor Samruay

Story of Luang Phor Samruay

Luang Phor Samruay was chatty and sharing about his life story while hand-making brooms for devotees in return for their tamboon. He said that when he was young he ordained as a Dhammayut monk and so wasn't too close to his family as he stayed in the temple and went for tudongs. 

Luang Phor has a more sabai and relaxed life now since he "retired" and is staying at Tham Sai. Luang Phor mentioned that when he was tudong-ing at Loei, he just walked around with the bare requisites, he didn't have handphone, didn't have any money with him. 

It was a tough life where even light was scarce, just a single candlestick had to be used sparingly so he could navigate the dark caves. 

Some caves or mountains had large gaps or holes which he had to jump over carefully. 

And when he was in the caves alone, he would often hear footsteps as well as nagas slithering around. But when he opened his eyes, he didn't see anything. Luang Phor also had to be wary of traps hunters set for wild animals, he once got his leg caught but luckily it wasn't too serious. 

Years later he disrobed. As he still missed going on tudong, suat mon, meditation as well as making leklai and nammon for devotees, he decided to reordain but this time in the Maha Nikaya tradition. Now that he is old, he is in "retirement mode" and has been staying at Tham Sai cave ever since, since it is located in his home province of Nakhon Ratchasima. 

Luang Phor is very surprised and grateful for everyone's support. Just a couple of weeks ago, he was still wondering whether the temple would ever get a water pump. I have also sent out the leklai today and messaged you with the photo of the parcel and tracking number. If there are any devotees who provided me with your address but I didn't message you today, please do PM me 

🙏🙏🙏