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Webu Sayadaw was famous for his unflagging diligence in meditation and for spending most of his time in solitude. He said that by working with this practice to a very deep level of concentration, one is able to develop Vipassana (insight) into the essential characteristics of all experience: anicca (impermanence), anatta (egolessness) and dukkha (unsatisfactoriness). He practiced (and later taught) the technique of Anapana-sati (awareness of the in-breath and out-breath). In 1923 (seven years after his ordination), he left the monastery and spent four years in solitude. He underwent the usual monk's training in the Pali scriptures from the age of nine, when he became a novice, until he was twenty-seven. Webu Sayadaw was born in the village of Ingyinpin in upper Burma on 17 February 1896. It means 'respected teacher monk.') He was notable in giving all importance to diligent practice rather than to scholastic achievement.

Webu Sayadaw was one of the most highly respected monks of this century in Burma. He was believed by many to have been an Arahat, a person who has in practice fully understood the Four Noble Truths and attained the end of suffering. He passed away on the 26th of June 1977 in the meditation center at his native village Ingyinbin. The Webu Sayadaw undertook pilgrimages to the Buddhist sites of India and Sri Lanka. The statements of the people in the audience offer us a glimpse of how Buddhism is practiced in Burma today. His refreshing simplicity, his patience, his lovely sense of humor, and his humility, all revealed in his dialogue with his audience, illumine a side of Buddhism which cannot be perceived by reading treatises and texts. The Webu Sayadaw was not a scholar and his discourses do not cater to the intellectual who prefers the study of Buddhist philosophy to the practice. The direct understanding of these three characteristics is called pañña, wisdom, which is the most essential quality required of a meditator to reach Nibbana. Though anapana sati is basically a way of developing samadhi, one-pointed concentration of mind, the Webu Sayadaw said that when concentration is developed to a sufficient degree, the meditator can gain insight into the three characteristics of nature - impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and non-self. The technique of meditation taught by the Webu Sayadaw is anapana sati, 'mindfulness of breathing,' which requires one to be aware of breathing in while breathing in, of breathing out while breathing out, and of the spot or area which the stream of air touches while the breath is entering and leaving the nostrils. The study of the scriptures, though helpful, is not essential for the realization of Nibbana. The Webu Sayadaw emphasized the practice of meditation as the only way to bring the teachings of the Buddha to fulfillment. It stands up to investigation and is in accordance with the teachings of the Buddha as observed in the scriptures. He said: 'This is the shortcut to Nibbana. He taught his former teacher at the village monastery on request the technique of meditation he had adopted. Then he went to his native village Ingyinbin for a brief visit.

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In his seventh year after full ordination he abandoned the study of the Pali scriptures and left the monastery to put into practice what he had learned about meditation.Īfter leaving the monastery, U Kumara spent four years in solitude. U Kumara went to Mandalay to study at the famous Masoyein Monastery, the leading monastic university of the time. ('Webu Sayadaw' is a title meaning 'the holy teacher from Webu,' given to him after he became an established teacher.)

At the age of twenty he was ordained as a full member of the Sangha, now being addressed as U Kumara. He was ordained as a novice at the age of nine and was given the name Shin Kumara. “The job of a birth partner or a laboring mother is to look deep within, past the intellect, into the realm of body wisdom, and trust the process.The Webu Sayadaw was born on the 17th of February 1896 in Ingyinbin, a small village near Shewbo in upper Burma.

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