In that way, he managed to sit for a full hour. What mattered to his teacher was that he tried his best to improve. There is a lesson here for all of us too. The Sayadaw U Passana would never have imagined that he would be a resident monk at a meditation centre in the U.K. one day. It's a far cry from his days as a student monk in a remote village temple in Burma.
Most people measure sucess in terms of material possessions.
He reaps the fruits of the Dhamma, the highest of all, so that others too will benefit. Like Sayadaw U Pandita, Ven. Sujivo and other meditation teachers, he is the stuff that true men are really made of. The Life and Times of a Student Monk. Published by Buddhist Wisdom Centre .