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Insight Myanmar — 619 episodes

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Title
1

The Sum of Small Cuts

2

Bearing Down on Practice

3

An Unfound Door and All the Forgotten Faces

4

The People’s Credentials

5

The Cure Within

6

Price of Raw Power

7

No Direction Home

8

Return to Sender

9

At The Checkpoint

10

A Course in Progress

11

Most Favored Regime

12

Meditating beyond the Benevolent Dictator

13

Ground Control

14

The Feminine Mystique

15

Port of No Return

16

Missing, Presumed Extinct

17

Abandoning the Barracks

18

Tales of the Tape

19

An Umbrella Policy

20

Strong Determination

21

Ground Rules

22

Open Source Awakening

23

Bonus Episode: Shake It Off

24

Never Break the Chain

25

The Missing Self

26

Rangoon Calling

27

Past the Commentaries

28

A Border Runs Through It

29

The Hidden Flock

30

Terms of Extraction

31

Unscripted Awakening

32

Behind the Firewall

33

Let Them Eat Cake

34

Class Dismissed

35

Sacred Grounds Contested

36

No Safe Shelter

37

Lesson Learned

38

A State of Being

39

At the Dhamma Hinge

40

For Whom The Bell Tolls

41

Before the Union

42

What Dreams May Come

43

The Valley of Samādhi

44

Limits of Leadership

45

The Day the Music Died

46

Comrades in Arms

47

Life is Meditation

48

The Revolution Will Be Televised

49

The Back of the Cave

50

The Body Politic

51

Changing Course

52

When the War Comes Home

53

Burden of Rule

54

Built From Scrap

55

Practice Outside the Lines

56

The Architecture Of Exclusion

57

An Officer and a Gentleman

58

No Man’s Land

59

From the Other Shore

60

The Long Fuse

61

Acts of Translation

62

Through the Interregnum

63

The Path Awakens

64

When the Goats Chase the Lions

65

Creative Resistance

66

Plowing Ahead

67

Ribbons, Spirits, and Strings

68

A Right to Clock In

69

The Fire Next Door

70

Relaxing Into Awakening

71

From A Distance

72

Between Two Histories

73

The Social Contract

74

Unorthodox Inquiries

75

Quick on the Draw

76

Staying the Course

77

When The Window Closed

78

Forced to Vote

79

A Rose by Any Other Name

80

Knocking on Malaysia’s Door

81

The Path in Question

82

A Life In Motion

83

The Transparency Paradox

84

Victims of Success

85

The Akha Way

86

Aniccā with Feeling

87

The Leftovers

88

Enter the Dragon

89

No State, No Service

90

From a Mirrorless Cell

91

Tremors

92

Between War and Peace

93

Left Behind

94

Bonus Episode: Shelter From The Storm

95

Coming to Practice

96

On the Threshold

97

Reality Bites

98

The Justice League

99

Terra Incognita

100

Never Again

101

Conflict Takes Root

102

Holding the Line

103

In the Name of the Sāsana

104

Dreaming Forward

105

The Train Wreck Ahead

106

A Second Renunciation

107

The Fire Next Time

108

An Undisciplined Democracy

109

Returning to the Source

110

Let the Circle Be Unbroken

111

Maple Leaf Diplomacy

112

A Clockwork Election

113

Authorization Pending

114

An Uphill Battle

115

The Weight of Survival

116

Reckoning with the Dhamma

117

Choosing the Red Pill

118

Enemy of the State

119

The Right To Belong

120

The Erasure of Mindfulness

121

The Center Holds

122

The Hidden War

123

Nothing To Lose But Exploitation

124

Untangling Myth from Memory

125

No End of History

126

Beyond the Robes

127

No Safe Passage

128

The Space Between

129

Welfare State, DIY

130

The Revolution Will Not Be Meditated

131

Building Bridges From Norway

132

A Not So Quiet American

133

Liberal Dreams, Illiberal Ends

134

Still I Rise

135

The Art of Letting Go

136

Reclaiming The Narrative

137

Here Be Dragons

138

The Fragile Light of Vipassanā

139

The Case for Engagement

140

What Lies Beneath

141

The Medium Is the Message

142

State of the Scam

143

The Weight of Freedom

144

A House Divided

145

From Halo-Halo to Milk Tea

146

Towards Confederation

147

Both Sides Now

148

ASEAN in the Balance

149

Neither Free Nor Fair

150

Abandoned in Plain Sight

151

The Bloodiest Election

152

Into The Mystic

153

Facing a Fraying World

154

Fever Pitch

155

Paved By Good Intentions

156

Learning To Fly

157

Something in the Air

158

The Practice of Freedom

159

Poetic Justice

160

Between Here and Home

161

Framing the Dead

162

When Spiders Unite

163

Children of the Revolution

164

A Scanner Darkly

165

Against Injustice

166

No Space for Dictators

167

Far From Home

168

Leaving the Tradition

169

Ghosts in the Machine

170

A Doctor Without Borders

171

Inside the Digital Siege

172

The Long Stalemate

173

Across the Universe

174

Scamland

175

Hit ’Em Up

176

The Long Baht Home

177

From Rio to Rangoon

178

Trajectories in Flux

179

Meditating on History

180

Reclaiming Ground

181

A Borderline Personality

182

Through Other Eyes

183

Snap Judgments

184

At The Edge of Self

185

You’ve Got Harm

186

Going Off Script

187

A Movement Begins

188

Super Rabbit Person

189

Bonus Episode: Meditation Across Borders

190

The Military Monastic Complex

191

The Doors of Repression

192

Roots of the Dhamma

193

Hamburger Hill

194

Smells Like Teen Spirit

195

At The Breaking Point

196

Stairway to Jhāna

197

Everything Will Be Okay

198

Mined and Forgotten

199

A Narco State of Mind

200

Delusions of Grandeur

201

A Moral Reckoning

202

The Silence of the Valkyries

203

In The Crosshairs

204

A Deeper Renunciation

205

Apocalypse Now Redux

206

From Ashes to Sunshine

207

Between Guns and Ghosts

208

Protected by the Dhamma

209

Blood on the Wires

210

Songs of Fire and Silence

211

This Land Is My Land

212

The Lives of Others

213

You’ll Never Walk Alone

214

A Norwegian Fairy Tale

215

Contested Ground

216

When Tech Meets Tyranny

217

Fragmentation

218

The Will To Fight

219

The Spirit of Disobedience

220

Long Walk to Freedom

221

Barely Breathing

222

Return to Nowhere

223

Dark Signals

224

Heritage and Hope

225

Losing My Religion

226

Unfrozen Assets

227

On Vipassanā and Authenticity

228

Rooted Beyond Erasure

229

Of Bills and Sanctions

230

All Along the Mekong

231

The Adjustment Bureau

232

The Art of No Deal

233

It Takes All Of Us

234

Echoes in the Absence

235

The Resistance Will Not Be Dammed

236

Flattery Will Get You Everywhere

237

Decolonize This

238

Oslo’s Lost Accord

239

More Than Words

240

Degrees of Resistance

241

Schooling the System

242

Awakenings and Uprisings

243

The Ripple Effect

244

Bonus Episode: A Talk at New Bloom

245

Crypto in the Time of Tyranny

246

The Invisible Enemy

247

No Self, No Junta

248

Crime and Disbursement

249

No Neutral Ground

250

Rewriting History

251

From Russia With Anxiety

252

When Silence Isn’t Noble

253

Can’t Knock the Hustle

254

Over the Borderline

255

Bonus Episode: The Global Citizen

256

A Nation Interrupted

257

From the Strait to the Streets

258

On the Frontlines of Democracy

259

Fields of Gold

260

Spring Awakening

261

Dispatches from the Edge

262

Burn After Reforming

263

Bonus Episode: Light Forest

264

The Art of Doing Nothing

265

Rangoon Confidential

266

On The Waterfront

267

An Irish Bhikkhu in Burma

268

The Unfriendly Skies

269

Lost In Translation

270

Whose Byline Is It Anyway?

271

Emergency Declined

272

The Start of a Path

273

Between The Junta and a Hard Place

274

Hear Me Now

275

Exit Wounds

276

Against The Wind

277

Livin' On A Prayer

278

Bridge to Nowhere

279

Mission Aborted

280

US AID is MIA

281

Shaken Faith

282

Between the Rubble and the Regime

283

Fault Lines

284

Cracks in the System

285

The Ninth Circle of Hell

286

Aftershocks

287

Welcome to the Jungle

288

Love in the Time of Rebellion

289

Running on Empty

290

Beyond the Golden Triangle

291

Bonus Episode: Zenanarchism

292

Navigating the Inner Journey

293

The Usual Suspects

294

The Hunger Games

295

The Devil You Know

296

Hope Deferred

297

Breathless In Burma

298

August and Everything After

299

Where The Streets Have No Name

300

Bonus Content: DVB English News

301

Apocalypse Then

302

Unbroken Lessons

303

Fearless in Cambodia

304

Ghosts of Empire

305

The Long Road to Freedom

306

Roots Run Deep

307

Strings Attached

308

Hagar The Wonderful

309

Blood on the Lotus

310

Homeward Bound

311

Revolutionary Road

312

Once Upon A Time

313

Coming To America

314

A Taste of Resilience

315

Of Unity and Uprising

316

Shaken, Not SIlenced

317

Bonus Content: Interview with a Journalism Student

318

Ripples of Dhamma

319

The Last Stand

320

A Sanctioned Resistance

321

Rage Against the Dying Light

322

Surviving Scorched Earth

323

These Songs of Freedom

324

Anāgārika Munindra

325

Brewing Up Change

326

Breaking Burma

327

This Land Was Our Land

328

Rising Above the Static

329

Twelve Years in Burma

330

The Revolution Will Be Steeped

331

Running Up That Hill

332

Mindfulness from the Ashes

333

Cracking the Code

334

Silent No More

335

No Money, Mo’ Problems

336

America Decides: How the US Election Could Reshape Burma Policy

337

The Longyi Revolution and Beyond

338

Breaking Ranks

339

Caught in the Crossfire

340

Hello from the Other Side

341

Monkey in the Middle

342

Revolutionizing Relief

343

Why Did Ashin Sarana Disrobe?

344

The Art of War

345

Bonus Content: An Interview with The Bangkok Podcast

346

Navigating a Mine Field

347

Namaste to Nowhere

348

Reading the Tea Leaves

349

The Cure Lies Within

350

Passage to India

351

A Woman’s Place is in the Revolution

352

From The Ground Up

353

Beyond the Headlines

354

Dr. Jenny Ko Gyi

355

Behind Enemy Lines

356

Through Hell and High Water

357

Funding Freedom

358

Decoding the Regime Playbook

359

A Diplomatic Deadlock

360

Jonathan Crowley, Part 4

361

A Star2 Is Born

362

A Sacred Struggle

363

A Critical Junction

364

Fighting Fire With Fire

365

ASEAN’s Inconvenient Humanitarian Crisis

366

Crime and Punishment

367

Spring University Myanmar

368

Barry Lapping

369

Spirals and Snowballs

370

A River Runs Through It

371

The Borders of Conflict

372

Promises Unfulfilled

373

Beyond Impunity

374

Broken Dreams in the Land of Smiles

375

The Great Escape

376

Sketching Out the Journey

377

Debbie Stothard

378

At the Crossroads of Conflict

379

Beyond the Barricades

380

Workers Strike Back

381

No Diplomatic Immunity

382

An Outsized Influence (Emergency Edition)

383

Riches, Resources, and Revolutions

384

Call It A Revolution (Emergency Edition)

385

Taming the Tiger

386

Leon Kennedy

387

Shan Chronicles

388

Above the Fray

389

The Long Road Home

390

Jonathan Crowley, Part 3

391

Rage Against the Regime

392

Thinzar Shunlei Yi

393

Visa Verses

394

Ciao, Enlightenment

395

Cursing Tyranny

396

Hidden Ledgers (Emergency Edition)

397

Revolt, Rebuild, Rebirth

398

Dhamma at a Cross Roads

399

Bo Thanmani

400

The Blueprint of Resistance

401

Navigating the Legal Pathways Down Under

402

Whit Hornsberger

403

Forging Solidarity Across Conflict

404

Sean Turnell

405

Climb Every Mountain

406

Echoes of Genocide

407

Emergency Edition: Burning the Midnight Oil

408

You Say You Want A Revolution

409

“Why Has Myanmar’s Democracy Movement Been Ignored?” (Panel Discussion)

410

Nobuko Nakano

411

Rebels Without A Pause

412

Emergency Edition: Scams and Shackles

413

Uncovering Dr. Leon Wright

414

Emergency Edition: The Spring Revolution Will Win

415

Ashin Kovida

416

Emergency Edition: Rakhine Roulette

417

Jack Myint, Part 2

418

The Breath of Awakening

419

Navigating the Financial Landscape

420

Battling Oppression with Economic Stability

421

Michael Stein

422

Wes Kingsley

423

Revolutionary Poetry

424

The Brutal Incompetence of a Floundering Regime

425

Dancing in Duality

426

Presumed Guilty

427

Narcos: Myanmar

428

No Country for Democracy

429

Bonus Content: Insight Myanmar Podcast featured on "Rocklaz Radio with Tanmay Shah"

430

Resisting Until Victory

431

Grahame White, Part 1

432

The French Connection

433

Picturing a Revolution

434

A Light at the End of the Tunnel

435

A Double Minority

436

From Reconciliation to Resistance

437

Rising Above Borders

438

Pabhassaro Bhikkhu

439

The Dark Side of Teak

440

Scot Marciel

441

Bonus Content: Insight Myanmar Podcast featured on "Uncensored: Women of the World"

442

Cooking Up a Revolution

443

A Post-Coup Thriller

444

Locked and Loaded

445

Sunda Khin, Part 1

446

Jonathan Crowley, Part 2

447

Jonathan Crowley, Part 1

448

Jack Myint, Part 1

449

Revisiting the Aluminum Trail

450

Hope from the Heartland

451

Tempel Smith, Part 1

452

Acting Against Injustice

453

Leaving On A Jet Plane

454

A Candle in the Darkness

455

Steve Smith, Part 1

456

Threads of Justice

457

Access Denied

458

Flavors of Freedom

459

The Inconvenient Truth about the Military Coup

460

Contrasting Iran and Myanmar

461

The Rohingya Refugee Crisis

462

U Gambira

463

The Harmony of David Lai

464

Ayya Yeshe

465

Simplicity And Solidarity

466

From Democracy to Demolition

467

Yearning For Home (Panel Discussion)

468

Kory Goldberg is Along The Path

469

Tears Matter

470

I Fought the Law (and the Law Won)

471

The Revolution will not be Incarcerated

472

Overcoming The Nightmare

473

Funding a Revolution

474

Girl, Interrupted

475

The Urban Village

476

Behind ASEAN’s Closed Doors

477

Meditation on Revolution

478

A Generational Change

479

The Burma Act

480

You Down with NUG?

481

Talkin' Bout a Revolution

482

Myanmar’s Voices for Freedom (Panel Discussion)

483

The Overturned Alms Bowl

484

Paint It Black

485

Mission of Burma

486

Breaking Glass Ceilings, Documenting Atrocities

487

Following the Dhamma

488

Freedom Behind Bars

489

The Fight of Their Lives

490

On the Ropes

491

A Jaded Hellscape

492

Igor Blaževič on the Spring Revolution

493

The Pit and the Pendulum

494

Chinland’s Forgotten War

495

Helping to Cushion the Blow

496

Fiction and Fun in Burma

497

Keeping the Burmese Language Alive

498

Power to the People

499

A Failure of Diplomacy

500

A Conversation with Gil Fronsdal

501

A Vipassanā Journey

502

Htein Lin: Pursuing Art and Liberation

503

Wading Through a Burmese Haze

504

Progressing Towards Victory

505

Attack on a Meditation Center

506

Have Pity on the Working Man

507

A Reign of Terror

508

Supporting Myanmar through Engaged Buddhism

509

Spring is Coming

510

Journey into Chin State

511

Visual Rebellion

512

Journey Into Renunciation

513

Working Class Hero

514

Lives in the Balance

515

The Power of Dialogue

516

The Karenni Resistance

517

The Hope of R2P

518

The Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi Returns

519

A Delicate Balance

520

A Voice of Conscience

521

Rick Hanson on Becoming An Ally

522

Mratt Kyaw Thu

523

Contrasting Ukraine and Myanmar

524

Liberation At All Costs

525

Beth Upton

526

Resistance and Transformation

527

Education: The Passport to the Future

528

Pride and Prejudice

529

Alan Senauke, Engaged Buddhist

530

The Language of Freedom

531

This Woman’s Work

532

Looking Within A Burmese Nunnery

533

Depicting a Golden Kingdom

534

From Burma With Love

535

Revisiting the Burma Spring

536

Portrait of an Activist

537

Sitagu Sayadaw, The Coup, and Burmese Buddhism

538

The Fabric of Change: Feminism, Art, and Revolution

539

Artists Against Tyranny, Part 2

540

The Revolution's Roving Eye

541

Artists Against Tyranny

542

The Story of Magway

543

Bart Was Not Here

544

Dave Leduc: A champion stands with the people

545

Revolution As Art

546

The Side Effect of a Revolution

547

David Eubank: A Man of Faith and Action Fights for Burma

548

Courage Under Fire

549

How to Stop an Innovative Start-Up

550

Resiliency in the Face of Terror

551

Keeping the Faith

552

Towards a More Just Society

553

The Third Wave

554

You Can't Go Home Again

555

Fight the Power

556

Dr. Sasa on the COVID crisis in Myanmar

557

The Taste of Dhamma

558

From Academic to Activist On the Run

559

A Lifetime of Advocacy

560

A History of Violence

561

Bhikkhu Bodhi on the Crisis in Myanmar

562

The View From France

563

Courage in Chinland

564

Whatever It Takes

565

Act with Courage, Pray with Faith

566

Gratitude and Growth

567

Beaten but not Broken

568

Up In Flames

569

No Magical Thinking

570

Punk Revolutionary

571

Home Is Where the Heart Is

572

Operation Defection

573

Literally A Nightmare Scenario

574

A Risk-Taker at Risk

575

Touches with the Golden Land

576

Going Rogue: A Doctor on the Front Lines

577

The End Justifies the Memes

578

A Screeching Halt: The Military Coup Shoots Down Reforms

579

Understanding the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM)

580

Taking a Moral Stand

581

Drawing a Line Between Hope and Fear

582

Navigating Rough Waters

583

Feeding Freedom, Not Fear

584

Active Days, Restless Nights

585

The Power of Mettā in Action

586

Facing Darkness with Light

587

Finding Inner Stability in Troubling Times

588

The Mystery of U Lokanatha, Part 1

589

From the River Bank of Consciousness

590

Luissa Burton

591

Detached Engagement: Racial Equity Training in the Vipassana organization of S.N. Goenka

592

Voices: Burmese Theravada in a Catholic Land, Part 2, Raymond Riveria

593

Sebastien Le Normand

594

COVID-19 Pandemic: Dealing with Disruption

595

Voices: Burmese Theravada in a Catholic Land, Part 1

596

Media Corner: The Power Of Ethical Spiritual Intelligence

597

Media Corner: The Discovery of Mindfulness

598

Zaw Win Htet, Part 2

599

Zaw Win Htet, Part 1

600

Intersection of Dhamma & Race: Insights in an Unjust World

601

Melissa Coats

602

COVID-19 in Myanmar: Thabarwa Edition

603

Myanmar Dhamma Diaries: An Assault on Faith

604

Intersection of Dhamma & Race: Episode #1

605

COVID-19 in Myanmar: Sheltering At Home

606

COVID-19 in Myanmar: Exiled Expats Edition

607

Myanmar Dhamma Diaries: Empathy for the Executioners

608

COVID-19 in Myanmar: Monastic Edition

609

COVID-19 in Myanmar: Women's Edition

610

COVID-19 in Myanmar: Burmese Edition

611

Myanmar Dhamma Diaries: Sobering Up in Ingyinbin

612

Swe Win

613

Sayalay Khanticari

614

Ashin Sarana

615

Daniel Mayer

616

Alan Clements

617

Sayalay Piyadassii

618

Thabarwa Sayadaw

619

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