Maechi Wabi

When growing up, Wabi felt unappreciated in her family. Early in her age, she discovered her love for meditation from a visit to a temple with her mother. After completing 6th grade, she was required to assist her mother in caring for her siblings and work in the fields for food and money. At 16 years of age, she experienced going forth as a maechi for the first time and realized that at this moment was when she found peace. Wabi was always discontented and dissatisfied with the idea of growing up to be a mother and constantly having to care for others and work, so at age 17, she makes the decision to go forth. Seeking her father for help, he advises her to travel to Bangkok and together they travel there. Her father soon departs from her side and Maechi Seni offers to take Wabi into her Samnak if she would help care for her father and sister. There, Maechi Wabi stayed for seven years cooking, cleaning, and me

Living in Maechi Seni’s samnak created conflict with another maechi, called Maechi Mina. Maechi Mina suggests that Maechi Wabi was “clinging like a leech” because of her dependency on Maechi Seni. When Maechi Wabi was hospitalized and suffering from wasp stings, Maechi Mina doesn’t help her, but instead says “Serves you right.” These occasions with Maechi Mina complicates Maechi Wabi in such away that it greatly changed her life. “During this time, feelings of anger, resentment, and hurt about Mina arose in Wabi” (Brown, 52). She was so impacted by the anger she received when referring back to Maechi Mina, it disturbed her meditation for a long time, even when she

In Wabi’s journey of becoming a maechi and searching for religion, she faces numerous impediments. These times of crisis almost stopped her from continuing on as a maechi. Nevertheless, Wabi doesn’t give up. She learns various forms of meditation that should assist her to Nirvana. In the course of her periods of conflicts and suffering, she increases her knowledge of Buddhism and gains insights and understandings from her experiences as one Buddhist nun.

ditating and she felt peace and happiness for the first time in her life. Maechi Seni teaches her many meditaion forms and Maechi Wabi also travels to other Samnaks to learn. Illness takes over her body and she returns home twice in the same year because of unexpected events. After many hardships, she sets out

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