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etc. Having given a great many interviews, Sayadaw has met many different kinds of yogis. He has met some who talk to him the way he did to the second doctor. At these times, he often corrects them by telling them of his own mistake.
There is one thing which Sayadaw said which lacked first-hand experience. When Sayadaw, as a novice at the Kyauktan Mahâbodhi Monastery, was taking care of sundry tasks for his original preceptor, who had become chronically ill, he heard from a group of monks of the potency of a certain medicine made from the aloe plant. Feeling heartened for his Sayadaw, he went to him and expounded the virtues of this medicine, putting on airs as if he had first-hand experience with it. His teacher asked, "Maung Pandita, have you taken it yourself?"
When Sayadaw said he had not, his teacher just said, "Yeah." Starting then, Sayadaw never again talked about things with which he did not have first-hand experience as if he did, they say. When he meets yogis who tell him of things which aren't their own first-hand experience, he often corrects them, by explaining his own experience. It is a great example, indeed.
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