Melissa Coats
The story of Melissa Coats is a tale of finding balances. It relates to navigating her identity, being half-white and half-Korean, and her practice, going back and forth between being a lay practition...
20 Sep 20201h 46min
COVID-19 in Myanmar: Thabarwa Edition
The sixth episode in our “COVID-19 in Myanmar” series, this is the first show in this series in which all the voices are from a single place—in this case, Thabarwa Monastery in Than Lyin. This episode...
28 Aug 20202h 8min
Myanmar Dhamma Diaries: An Assault on Faith
Sometimes a single moment can be so profound… or so complex… that it takes hours, or even days, following the encounter to get a handle on it. In the story that follows, that “moment” has been taking ...
15 Aug 20201h 35min
Intersection of Dhamma & Race: Episode #1
This is a very different kind of show than any previous episode we’ve brought you on the Insight Myanmar Podcast. Regular listeners may remember that a few months ago, we interrupted our usual run of ...
27 Jul 20202h 25min
COVID-19 in Myanmar: Sheltering At Home
Welcome to the fifth episode in our ongoing “COVID-19 in Myanmar” series, called “Sheltering in Place.” While the previous show told the stories of four expats who left just before the world closed do...
17 Jul 20201h 37min
COVID-19 in Myanmar: Exiled Expats Edition
How has the coronavirus pandemic impacted foreign meditators in Myanmar? This is precisely the question we set out to answer in this “Expats in Exile Edition” of our COVID-19 in Myanmar series.The gue...
4 Jul 20201h 55min
Myanmar Dhamma Diaries: Empathy for the Executioners
In 2017, Zach Hessler, then known as U Obhasa, was a forest monk in upper Myanmar. Following in the tradition of monks during the Buddha's time, one day he set out from his forest monastery on foot to...
26 Jun 20201h 38min
COVID-19 in Myanmar: Monastic Edition
How is the coronavirus pandemic impacting monastics in Myanmar? This is precisely the question we set out to answer in this very special “Monastic Edition” of our COVID-19 in Myanmar series. The guest...
16 Jun 20202h 4min
