LAST SUNDAY, I met a prominent monk who is visiting here for a while. He usually stays away from public and I got a chance to meet him as I am close relative to his wife before he convert to a monk permanently. He was raised as a Muslim family and met my Aunt at University and married to her. Since my aunty is Buddhist, he converted to Buddhist from his Muslim heritage. As a result, he is totally dumped by his family and relatives. He is actually admired Buddhism secretly since he was young. He already started his meditation practice before he was converted to Buddhist. His reading habit make him friendly with our Buddha's teaching literature. Since he is an intelligent man, he was easily understood and converted unconditionally. After short marriage life, he realized that it'ld be better to practice Buddha's technique as a single man. Thus, he secretly walk out of his own family life that has two young baby girls whom are just 1 and 2 years old. It seem pretty cruel to leave a family behind as a man. But he did it as he totally believe in Buddha's way despite he fully converted this religion after adult.
From that day onwards, he continuously sought a good teacher who can teach him nicely as he's a good thinker as well as questioner. He fortunately found several profile monks and accumulate an excellent technique in a relatively short time. After he gathered theory, he went to a forest and started intensive meditation by applying known technique. He gained some mindfulness and calmness. He enjoyed a life of untra-ordinarily cool life by meditation way. He later joined a high profile monk who taught him in the oversea mission. By this way, he unexpectedly reached USA and tried to share his experience in the society of Christine. Since he is electronic engineer and well educated, he could able to stand out of other missionary and the locals requested his teacher to leave him when he return Myanmar. With the request of his teacher, he continue to conduct missionary for a decade.
After several years in US, he felt it's not good for himself and attempted to seek a way to return native land. Eventually he was able to return home land against the wills of locals. He find a good forest and resume his meditation to advancement in about mid 80s. In the meantime, he tried to share his valuable experience by writing some books. His book are strange from conventional dhamma books that are available in the market. He wrote simple and gave example by his past experience. He tried not to give century long stories that other writers used to state in their books. The younger generation are not interested in an old way. Thus his books gained popularity among audience regardless of age. The young people find his books acceptable and easy to apply. He wrote it by heart and it reflect his own past experience. So people feels they can do the same way if he can. At the same time, he suggest how to handle daily life's difficulties and problems. He explain how to start meditation in the daily life without taking certain times. People begin to understand and his books became one of best seller in the domestic market. Now he has printed out for more than 20 books and some of books has been translated to several languages such as English, Japanese, Korean, Cambodian, Thailand, etc. There is one book written originally by English. That's why his audience goes beyond border and he became famous by time. But he keep staying away from public and he remain difficult to meet.
He occasionally goes to abroad for some missionary purpose. Whenever he went out of south east asia, he used to transit in island state and I had a chance to meet him. Every minute he talk is worth priceless. People want to meet him but don't know how. He never held dhamma talk show like other famous monks do during visit. But public are allowed to meet him for a certain time (mostly from 11:00am to 12:00am) at the flat he temporarily stay. He used to talk people by Myanmar and English alternatively. So some locals who know him and met got benefit from his words. I feel lucky to have known him and relate him so far.
From that day onwards, he continuously sought a good teacher who can teach him nicely as he's a good thinker as well as questioner. He fortunately found several profile monks and accumulate an excellent technique in a relatively short time. After he gathered theory, he went to a forest and started intensive meditation by applying known technique. He gained some mindfulness and calmness. He enjoyed a life of untra-ordinarily cool life by meditation way. He later joined a high profile monk who taught him in the oversea mission. By this way, he unexpectedly reached USA and tried to share his experience in the society of Christine. Since he is electronic engineer and well educated, he could able to stand out of other missionary and the locals requested his teacher to leave him when he return Myanmar. With the request of his teacher, he continue to conduct missionary for a decade.
After several years in US, he felt it's not good for himself and attempted to seek a way to return native land. Eventually he was able to return home land against the wills of locals. He find a good forest and resume his meditation to advancement in about mid 80s. In the meantime, he tried to share his valuable experience by writing some books. His book are strange from conventional dhamma books that are available in the market. He wrote simple and gave example by his past experience. He tried not to give century long stories that other writers used to state in their books. The younger generation are not interested in an old way. Thus his books gained popularity among audience regardless of age. The young people find his books acceptable and easy to apply. He wrote it by heart and it reflect his own past experience. So people feels they can do the same way if he can. At the same time, he suggest how to handle daily life's difficulties and problems. He explain how to start meditation in the daily life without taking certain times. People begin to understand and his books became one of best seller in the domestic market. Now he has printed out for more than 20 books and some of books has been translated to several languages such as English, Japanese, Korean, Cambodian, Thailand, etc. There is one book written originally by English. That's why his audience goes beyond border and he became famous by time. But he keep staying away from public and he remain difficult to meet.
He occasionally goes to abroad for some missionary purpose. Whenever he went out of south east asia, he used to transit in island state and I had a chance to meet him. Every minute he talk is worth priceless. People want to meet him but don't know how. He never held dhamma talk show like other famous monks do during visit. But public are allowed to meet him for a certain time (mostly from 11:00am to 12:00am) at the flat he temporarily stay. He used to talk people by Myanmar and English alternatively. So some locals who know him and met got benefit from his words. I feel lucky to have known him and relate him so far.
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