Webu Sayadaw and Sayagyi U Ba Khin - International Meditation Centre
Webu Sayadaw and Sayagyi U Ba Khin - International Meditation Centre
Webu Sayadaw and Sayagyi U Ba Khin - International Meditation Centre
From Yangon
to Webu
In 1941, Sayagyi became the Accounts
Officer for Burma Railways. That year,
the fire of war was ablaze in the world;
the skies of Burma were also overcast
with the clouds of war. In July, Sayagyi
took an express train, using his special
carriage, to inspect the accounts in Myit
Tha railway station. When he found that
another railway accounts officer had
already done so, he had some free time.
His carriage was pulled to Kyauksai
station where it was shunted aside as he
had a few days’ work to catch up on.
Due east from the railway station, there
was the dark silhouette of Shwe Tha
Lyaung Hill, which seemed to beckon
Sayagyi. He went there without delay
accompanied by the assistant station
master of Kyauksai to pay respects at
the pagoda on the hill. After doing so, he
looked around, enjoying the lush
verdant landscape.
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verdant landscape.
words.
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“Sir, I wish to attain the Paths and
Fruition States, Nibbāna,” Sayagyi
answered.
“Oh, you want Nibbāna,” the Sayadaw
said. “How will you go there?”
The Webu
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Sayadaw
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undertakes
his first
journey to
lower Burma
– The Cause
of the
Journey
The ripening of Mother Sayamgyi’s
paramis was the reason for Sayagyi U Ba
Khin to invite the Venerable Webu
Sayadaw to Rangoon. In April 1953,
during the Water Festival period, Mother
Sayamagyi Daw Mya Thwin, took her
first meditation course at the
International Meditation Centre (IMC).
She was the wife of U Chit Tin (later,
Sayagyi U Chit Tin), who was one of
three people working in Sayagyi U Ba
Khin’s department who had been
selected to do the first course in the
shrine room of the Accountant General’s
Office. Before the IMC was founded,
Sayagyi U Ba Khin taught in this shrine
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Sayagyi U Ba Khin taught in this shrine
room.INTERNATIONAL
He asked his office workers
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attend the office as normal, but instead
of doing their work, they were to
meditate. He himself would do their
wouldn’t be here”.
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When Sayagyi U Ba Khin taught the
group Vipassana, Mother Sayamagyi
couldn’t feel anything at first. After the
Sayagyi’s
Invitation to
Webu
Sayadaw
In June 1953, Sayagyi U Ba Khin and
Mother Sayamagyi mentally invited the
Venerable Webu Sayadaw to come and
dwell at the IMC for seven days. Then,
Sayagyi sent U Boon Shein, a close
disciple, to Kyauksai to make a formal
invitation to Ven. Webu Sayadaw.
Sayagyi did not give U Boon Shein a
formal letter of invitation for the
Sayadaw. “Just say that I sent you,”
Sayagyi said and gave him instructions
i th i it ti
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concerning the invitation.
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“It is delightful MEDITATION
to hear CENTRE
that he is sharing
the Dhamma he obtained through his
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U Boon Shein was soMEDITATION CENTRE
happy he could
hardly speak. “It … it is suitable, sir,” he
Ven. Webu
Sayadaw in
the Dhamma
Hall, IMC-
Yangon
As Sayagyi spoke, Ven. Webu Sayadaw’s
face was lit by a smile. It was obvious
from his expression that he was happy
with what he heard.
Maung Ba Khin
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