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it. Think it over repeatedly. When you can't think it over any longer, then read the Sub-commentary, Bhante."
These were Sayagyi's words to Sayadaw, he told me. That was Sayagyi's methodology, to be sure. In conversation I have heard Sayadaw praise Mahasi Sayadaw and Sayagyi U Aung Myat Htut's scholarship. That Sayadaw not only met such great persons but adopted their methodology shows he was quite satisfied with them. I know of their expertise from what Sayadaw has said. One can also estimate this from their writings. Even now, at more than seventy years of age, Sayadaw still wants to study under the guidance of great scholars like these. Sayadaw's thirst for literary knowledge is very great indeed.
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