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As past listeners to our show may well know, we are committed to telling stories about Burma Dhamma on this platform, in my own personal experience, the deeper I go into my own learning, the more I discover there is to learn within this broad field, we're committed to authentically relaying stories to our listening audience that explore a diversity of topics illustrating the depth and breadth of Dhamma practice and Buddhist culture in the golden land. We are also always open to new suggestions. So if you would like to suggest a topic or theme that you feel is worth examining on future episodes, please be in touch with us. And with that, let's get on to today's show.

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good. So Alan, welcome

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back again to Insight Myanmar. After it's been what almost a year since you were first on as a guest. So I'm really excited that we finally nailed down this time to have this conversation. And you're here this time to talk about this recently published amazing book, Burma's voices of freedom. So first off, I just want to offer my heartfelt congratulations on this accomplishment. That's been my understanding. You've worked on this project for nearly three decades. So as someone who has spent nearly a decade developing a meditators guidebook to Burma, I can only imagine the perseverance, passion and dedication needed to see a project like yours to completion. So again, congratulations,

Alan Clements  02:22

Joe. Thank you. I'm honored to present these four volumes, Burma's voices of freedom, and unfinished struggle for democracy with my colleague and co author Fergus Harlow. together. We spent eight and a half years straight, interviewing dialoguing, traveling the country editing, transcribing, and the interviews actually do run from 1995. Up until 2020. It's a gift to the country of Burma, to M

A comparison of meditation techniques from various traditions. Quite illuminating. Daniel Goleman was a Professor of Psychology at Harvard in 1970s. He then spent many years with spiritual masters in India, then returned to the West to write books like Emotional Intelligence (1997).

I read this book around 2007-2008 time frame when I was researching meditation techniques. The book was quite interesting. However, by merely reading this book, I was not able to figure out what exactly meditation was, and how different traditions differed from each other. In September 2007, I did my first 10-day Vipassana meditation course — that was a life changing event. That course taught me what meditation really was, and how it changes us positively.

In the same book, Daniel Goleman mentions two different paths: one leading to 'zero', another leading to 'one', and that these two paths ultimately led to the same realization. In 2007-2008 time frame, I couldn't make any sense of these statements. Even after the 10-day course, these concepts were unclear. It was sometime in December 2015 that these dots got connected for me — at least I understood intellectually what zero and one meant.

Schober, Juliane. "6. Buddhist Visions of Moral Authority and Modernity in Burma". Burma at the Turn of the 21st Century, edited by Monique Skidmore, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005, pp. 113-132. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824861728-007

Schober, J. (2005). 6. Buddhist Visions of Moral Authority and Modernity in Burma. In M. Skidmore (Ed.), Burma at the Turn of the 21st Century (pp. 113-132). Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824861728-007

Schober, J. 2005. 6. Buddhist Visions of Moral Authority and Modernity in Burma. In: Skidmore, M. ed. Burma at the Turn of the 21st Century. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, pp. 113-132. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824861728-007

Schober, Juliane. "6. Buddhist Visions of Moral Authority and Modernity in Burma" In Burma at the Turn of the 21st Century edited by Monique Skidmore, 113-132. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824861728-007

Schober J. 6. Buddhist Visions of Moral Authority and Modernity in Burma. In: Skidmore M (ed.) Burma at the Turn of the 21st Century. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press; 2005. p.113-132. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824861728-007

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