Sleeping with a wooden pillow is something the Buddha himself recommended as a way to train ourselves in not oversleeping. Māra has no chance to take over the person who doesn’t indulge in sleep, who is strong and active both physically and mentally.

The standard followed at Suan Mokkh of not welcoming people who can’t wash their own plates, who must have someone else clean up after they eat, is a standard which doesn’t conflict with Buddhist principles.

Preaching Dhamma in lecture form, which sometimes must be done while standing, does not go against the Dhamma-Vinaya in any way.

The Nalike coconut pond is a lesson modeled after a children’s lullaby of the southern people that shows how much they had realized the highest Dhamma in times past, to the extent that they could take Nibbāna as the theme of a children’s lullaby.

The Demonstration Alms Offering practiced in Suan Mokkh is a practical study in how to feed onehundred monks, in how to do it smoothly while keeping the defilements under control.

The Suan Mokkh style of chanting uses chants that we have translated into our own language, trying to make them graceful and melodious. The passages chosen are concise and powerful, suitable for use as the objects of samādhi and vipassanā, also. May we leave these to be chanted for a long, long time.

The Literary Works making up The Dhamma Proclamation Series, the From His Own Lips Series, the Floating Lotus Series, and the Turning of the Dhamma Wheel Series: may we leave them as a memorial of a poetic mind that has released them with the greatest care into the Dhamma Sea – that is the hearts of all True People throughout the land – for them to thrive in the reservoir of that Dhamma Sea for unending time.