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rooms. They both honor intelligent students in accord with their excellence.
The way they both allow footwear to be worn in the monastery is similar, too. They have a similar way of correcting devotees who kneel on the road to bow to them, saying "Don't kneel down. Just stay standing. It's enough just to put your hands together at your chest". Their modern perspective is the same, too. They both fearlessly point out things in need of correction in the field of religious matters. Neither of them makes an issue of sectarianism. Neither of them follows the crowd. Not being acquiescent, they both have been seen as proud. They both had to suffer those who could not bear to see others succeed swarming around and condemning them. One maxim that the Mahâgandâyone Sayadaw included in his autobiography, One Life Cycle, comes to mind. "Unable to hear the voices calling 'Sâdhu!', they are swarming and condemning". The two Sayadaws have a great deal in common. Undoubtedly, there are some differences, too.
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