sewing a robe with a needle … dying a robe … sewing a robe during the robe-making ceremony … wandering to look for robe material for my companions in the spiritual life when they are making robes …

accepting an invitation … having such a thought: ‘If only someone would invite me!’ … sitting down inside a house … eating inside a house …

getting caught up in the features by way of the details of a lady’s appearance … teaching a lady, even so much as a four line verse … going to the nuns’ quarters … teaching the nuns … teaching the trainee nuns … teaching the novice nuns …

giving the going forth … giving the ordination … giving dependence … being attended by a novice …

bathing in the sauna … bathing with bath powder … looking for a massage from my spiritual companions … being ill, even for as long as it takes to pull a cow’s udder … being presented with medicine, even as much as a bit of yellow myrobalan … leaning on a leaning-board … preparing a cot …” This too we remember as an incredible and amazing quality of Venerable Bakkula.

“In these eighty years, I don’t recall commencing the rainy season residence within a village.” This too we remember as an incredible and amazing quality of Venerable Bakkula.