Start With Wanting to Know
Still no time to write my own posts, so here’s another interview excerpt, this time an interview with Burmese monk Sayadaw U Tejaniya in the Winter 2007 Tricycle:
…when wisdom grows, it leads you by the nose. You can’t stop. That’s why I like the atheists. There’s hope for them. There is no need to believe anything. People become atheists because they think—they cannot believe, but they still want to know.
In the beginning, just start with wanting to know. Everyone has some curiosity, some basic need to know. Just encourage that. A good education is motivating a person to want to know for himself. All the cramming and rote learning is never a good education. You won’t get the best out of people that way. Their potential is stifled. Only people with an inner urge to learn will keep developing.
—Sayadaw U Tejaniya