Bhikkhu Abhaya is a Sri Lankan monk now living in Perth, Western Australia. He was ordained under the renowned master of meditation, Venerable Ajahn Brahmavamso. A mathema tics graduate from the Colombo University, Bhikkhu Abhaya after serving as a teacher for a few years when he was a layman, took off to Britain where he found a job in a big engineering firm. In 1982, he moved to Australia where for nearly two decades, he worked for one of the biggest aluminium firms. He started practising meditation and was soon very much into the Dhamma. He got ordained in 2000 and obtained 'upasampada' the following year. Bhikkhu Abhaya is one of twenty monks in a 500-acre forest monastery in Perth.