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Some of U Thet's relatives and friends requested that he teach them meditation.
U Thet and his wife had many friends
and relatives living nearby in the village.
U Thet and his wife had many friends
and relatives living close by in the village.
Soon some of U Thet's relatives and friends began to request that he teach them meditation.
They included U Thet's son and young teenage daughter who,
it is said, died in his arms.
Misinterpreting U Thet's zeal, people in the village were at first
reluctant to come to him for instruction.
U Thet started teaching Anapana to a group of about 15 people in 1914,
when he was 41 years old.
Maung Po Thet, now called U Po Thet or U Thet(Mr.
Thet), also prospered in the buying and selling of rice.
During these years of his spiritual searching, U Thet's wife and sister-in-law remained in Pyawbwegyi and managed the rice fields.
When U Thet told his teacher about his meditation experiences and the courses he had been offering,
Ledi Sayadaw was very pleased.
His listeners found his talks
so learned that they refused to believe that U Thet had very little theoretical knowledge of Dhamma.
It was during this visit,
that Ledi Sayadaw gave his staff to U Thet, saying,"Here, my great pupil,
take my staff and go.
It was only when his nephew Maung Nyunt became a
novice at 12 years of age that U Thet himself became a novice.
Thet Swei Win believes that because the bulk of the population
had little prior internet experience, they were especially vulnerable to propaganda and misinformation.
U Ba Soe offered to take charge of the fields and the household affairs and
U Thet's sister and a niece took responsibility for preparing the meals.
After about two weeks, U Thet said that he was spending too much time coming
and going for lunch, so Ma Hmyin and Ma Yin offered to send the noon meal to the sala.
After teaching for a year, in about 1915, U Thet took his wife
and her sister and a few other family members to Monywa to pay respects to Ledi Sayadaw, who was about seventy years old at that time.