Maechee Orawan Maneeratanachot

Thailand

Maechee Orawan Maneeratanachot

Thailand

Maechee Orawan Maneeratanachot, also known as, Maechee Ning teaches Vipassana meditation and Anapanasati meditation. She was born in 1974. She graduated from Bangkok University in Accounting. She was a clothing designer and owner of a clothing store. She married and gave birth to a daughter and a son. She, her husband and children went to practice meditation regularly at the temple. She decided to remain at the temple with her two children, and her husband amicably went to work. Eventually, after about two years she gave her children to her mother, and ordained in 2004 at the age of 30. Her husband and mother freely allowed her to fulfill her dream, and they kindly raised the children.

Little-by-little, a group of women came around her and they became a spiritual collective of about a dozen. They became wandering alms mendicants unattached even to a particular temple, yet connected as a group of women practitioners to transform suffering. She travels around Thailand teaching meditation and Dhamma accompanied by her women’s Sangha. She enrolled in Maha Chulalongkorn University’s B.A. Buddhist Studies Program in English. She graduated. She teaches when in Chiangmai in English to international persons.

This unique spiritual community, led by Maechee Ning, travels throughout Thailand, is highly committed to their individual meditation practice, as well as, to joy, happiness, and the propagation of Buddhism.

This manner of practice is ancient and was present during the time of the Buddha. Maechee Ning and her spiritual collective are the only ordained persons in contemporary Thai history to engage in this practice of deep faith and teachings.