Forest Recollections: Wandering Monks in Twentieth-Century Thailand Kinship economic and technological development must

economic and technological development must be accompanied by an inner spiritual growth

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where magic monks

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Forest Recollections: Wandering Monks in Twentieth-Century Thailand Kinship economic and technological development mustI stayed (in the forest) for two nights. The first night, nothing happened. The second night, at about one or two in the morning, a tiger camewhich meant that I didnt get any sleep the whole night. I sat in meditation, scared stiff, while the tiger walked around and around my umbrella tent (klot). My body felt all frozen and numb. I started chanting,and the words come out like running water. All the old chants I had forgotten now came back to me,