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Ajahn Sumedho, a highly accomplished teacher, reports being a student at the monastery of Ajahn Chah in Thailand and contracting malaria, which was very unpleasant. He had heard stories of monks for whom the malaria had infected their brains, sending them off to the asylum for the rest of their lives.

Ajahn Chah came to visit him and asked how he was. He reported that he was miserable with malaria and his fear that it might…