Builder of Wat Wah Phu Kaew, Sikiew
		Thaniyo - Luang Pho Phut
		Luang Pho Phut, a protege of Luangta Mahabua, was a fine man and scholar of the Middle Path, a robed gentleman who visited various Buddhist sites throughout Asia. He expounded the important concept that Buddhism, or indeed, deep religious conviction, need not be taken to the temple, but that it can and indeed should, start in the home. Watpa Salawan, Nakhonratchasima, is an important forest temple, beset by some of the problems of modern times - alcohol, drugs, wrongful temple administration, and allowing the operation of a small but powerful mafia group to defame others. All of this took place after Luang Pho Phut passed away. His passing was commemorated on its seventh anniversary on 13 May 2006.

Sayings of Thaniyo

Sayings of Luang Pho Phut (Taniyo) Thaniyo Bucha
2547 (2004)

Selected sayings of the late abbot of Watpa Salawan, Luang Pho Phut (Thaniyo)
Translated by Frank G Anderson
Build a Temple In The Home (pg. 26)If one is able to meditate with the mind concentrated
Knows the Dharma, Sees the Dharma, within one’s own home
There will be a practicing monk in that home every day.

If one Is Able to meditate with a restful mind
Knows the Dharma, Sees the Dharma inside the home
It will have a higher value than inviting tens of thousands of monks to pray.

Advise him to do this, to solve the problem of not having time to go to the temple. Thus I wish that everyone will build a temple within their home. Upon [hearing] this, some will object saying that if I teach thusly, when they are comfortable in their own homes, they will not make merit with me, and won’t I then go without? I say no way. There will be even more than before.What Is Concentration? (Pg. 53)Concentration is the name of one kind of Dharma
Defined as confidence or intense concentration.
Confidence in walking, sitting, lying, eating, drinking, speaking, thinking. When we have confidence all of the time, or intense concentration in determining awareness of walking, sitting, lying, eating, drinking, speaking, thinking, each instant and each heartbeat, you can believe it that it is indeed meditation. Everyone living in the world must by necessity all be connected through meditation. Meditation is a matter of daily life, and not remote. The practice of meditation is something necessary for mankind, because man’s life proceeds with the power of meditation, that is, confidence.Whether education, every kind of work, if we do not have confidence or intense concentration, we will become perfunctory. Whatever we do is not in earnest, grabbing here and leaving there; that person is someone without concentration, lacking in self confidence, missing confidence in his own capabilities. When it is thus, we meet with failure or loss.

Therefore, born as human beings we must possess earnestness
Someone who does something earnestly heart absorbed
Is called [one who has] truth, earnestness, [who] speaks truthfully and acts truthfully; one who does not let go of that begun; if not finished, does not let go. That kind of person has concentration by instinct.