Kyaw Yin Myint - New Thoughts and Perspectives of Scholars in the Twenty-First Century

The venerable Bhaddanta Lakkan

The great teacher of the Dharma, the great teacher of the Pali language

Everyone who contributes to the environment in which they live is greatly appreciated.

I only knew Sayadaw U Lakkhana as the Sayadaw who opened the Jivitadana Sangha Hospital in the remote village of Wachet in the Sagaing Mountains.

The Wa Chet Hospital has full-time doctors and nurses and provides healthcare to all monks and nuns from all over the area. In support of the Sayadaw’s visionary plans, many specialists and traditional healers in Mandalay regularly visit the Wa Chet Hospital to donate their knowledge. I have heard that this hospital is very beneficial for the surrounding area where transportation is difficult. That alone has earned me great respect for Sayadaw U Lakkhna.

I also temporarily joined the monks' order at the donation ceremony for the children and grandchildren of my mother, the public servant, to be ordained. All of us monks and laypeople spent a week at Sayadaw U Letchan's Kyaung Chao. We had to work hard on Vipassana.

I listen to the Sayadaw's daily sermons. The way he explains is based on a modern perspective. He can explain Vipassana in a way that is easy to understand. That's why I understand that international Vipassana practitioners come to his school. I also understand that the Sayadaw himself often travels abroad and opens Vipassana camps.

One evening, when we went to the monk's monastery, we saw a computer in the monk's room again. A modern and advanced computer. The monk worked on this computer. When I heard the monk discussing computer technology with U Pyin Sin Sein Tay (designer Ko Soe Win Nyein), I began to think of Sayadaw U Let Khant as a person who was more than just a person of great importance to me.

One morning, we walked into the village of Wa Chet with the monk. We saw him building drinking water tanks for the villagers. At one point, we saw the monk building a school for the village.

A monk who lives in a remote hermitage at the foot of the Pattamyaarmyay Pagoda in the northern part of Sagaing Mountain is seen doing various things for the good of the world. Although his residence is remote, his thoughts and actions are seen to be modern and modern.

Listen to the thoughts of the monk in the 21st century.

The most important thing people need in society is compassion. When there is compassion for each other, love for each other will naturally follow.

The monk always preached the same thing when he was abroad. In foreign countries, the monk met many Burmese men and women who had come from Myanmar. They had come with different purposes. When they arrived, they saw that they were helping each other out of their national spirit and compassion. Some people did not help each other out of kindness, but they looked at each other with different views, such as "what kind of person is this person?" and "what kind of person is that person?" The monk saw that they were losing love for each other.

What I want to be a monk is to help my people help each other wherever they go. I want them to help each other with compassion and love and to help each other grow and prosper. If all Burmese people help each other with compassion and love, then everyone will be prosperous.

The same is true domestically. If everyone helps each other and acts with full compassion and love, personal grudges will automatically disappear.

What I want monks to do is, from the beginning of the 21st century, if we act with compassion for each other, with a heart full of love and compassion, and if we eliminate anger and resentment and help each other, the world of humanity will be more peaceful than ever before.

When monks go to foreign countries, what they admire about their country is the spread of Buddhism. They admire it very much. They admire the monks in Myanmar, especially the noble men and women, who they admire. If they do not harbor any anger or resentment, but rather follow the teachings of the Buddha with respect and love, Myanmar will be more honored.

Sayadaw U Lakkhna was born in 1935 to his mother, Daw Vuk Saw, and his father, U Tha Htay, in Kataw Village, Myingyan Township. He became a monk at the Dakshinarama Monastery in Kataw Village from an early age and studied literature in Sagaing and Mandalay. He received a Ph.D. in Pali. He has been living in the Sagaing Hills since 1962.