The story of a belligerent alcoholic who checks into an Airbnb in Yangon, and finds himself learning anapana meditation at Webu Sayadaw Monastery in Ingyinbin, a remote village in northern Myanmar.
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Swe Win, currently the editor of Myanmar Now!, has long been a fearless activist for change. A former political prisoner who endured horrendous conditions, he found Dhamma alone in a prison cell, and currently practices Vipassana in the tradition of S.N. Goenka.
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Sayalay Khanticari’s spiritual journey started in her native Colombia and branched throughout South America, and onward to India until eventually landing her in Burma. Vipassana retreats in the tradition of S.N. Goenka gave her the first taste of Dhamma, and these seeds have since taken root in the Golden Land, where she currently lives and practices as a Buddhist nun.
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Ashin Sarana is a monk from the Czech Republic who has been in Myanmar nearly a decade. Fluent in Burmese and Pali, he gives Dhamma discourses and meditation instructions to locals as well as foreigners, and has become one of the most revered foreign monks ever to reside in the Golden Land.
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Daniel is a senior vipassana teacher (Acharya) in the S.N. Goenka tradition. He was appointed a Center Teacher (CT) originally for Dhamma Santi in Brazil, and most recently a Coordinating Area Teacher (CAT) “to serve the Rest of Africa.” His interview coincided with his return to Burma for the first time in exactly 40 years, when he had first visited in order to ordain as a monk at the International Meditation Center.
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Alan Clements is an American activist, author, and former monk who trained under Mahasi Sayadaw and Sayadaw U Pandita. He has also been a supporter of the nascent democracy movement in Burma and conducted a series of interviews with Aung San Suu Kyi in 1995.
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Sayalay Piyadassii, originally from Lithuania, has been a Buddhist nun in Myanmar since 2013. Initially a long-course vipassana student in the tradition of S.N. Goenka, she took up Pa Auk practice after ordination, and is now a full time student at Shan State Buddhist University in Taunggyi.
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Thabarwa Sayadaw has been at the forefront of monastic and societal reform in Myanmar. A controversial monk who endlessly encourages his followers to do good deeds, he talks here about his biography and the early development of his mission.
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Welcome to the Insight Myanmar podcast! We kick off our Burma Dhamma podcast with a brief introduction about our goals and objectives. Then, we hear previews of six upcoming full interviews, to get a flavor of what is to come. Stick around, you won’t be disappointed!
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