Talk — Mogok Sayadaw

by Hla Min

Updated : Aug 2025

Video Broadcast on January 13, 2021

Mogok Sayadaw U Vimala (1899 – 1962)

• Renowned Vipassana meditation master
• 500 (or more) audio tapes of Sayadaw’s recordings have been transcribed into books (some e-books), and CDs
  Available at the Mogok Vipassana Meditation Centers
• Featured in “Yahanda Hnit Poke Ko Htoo Myar” book by Dhammacariya U Htay Hlaing

First and Last Visit to Rangoon

• Arrived Rangoon on the morning of July 6, 1962 (Friday)
• A dhamma talk was scheduled at Tekkatho Dhammayone (RU Dhamma Hall) that evening
• Citing security reasons, the venue had to be changed to
  U Than Daing’s residence on 35 Lancaster Road (now Bo Ye Nyunt Lann)
• Sayadaw delivered the talk “The Four Noble Truths”
• Translation of the talk by U Sway Tin
• Devotees asked Sayadaw if he would come back the following year.
• Sayadaw said, “This Khanda will provide an answer”.
• Sayadaw passed away three months later.

Translations of Mogok Sayadaw’s Works

HOW TO DIE WITH A SMILE
By U Sway Tin

THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS
delivered by THE MOGOK SAYADAW on July 6, 1962
Recorded/translated by U Sway Tin
Publisher: Society for the Propagation of Vipassana (Mogok Sayadaw’s way)