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Podcast: Insight Myanmar
Episode: Voices: Burmese Theravada in a Catholic Land, Part 2, Raymond Riveria
Description: This is the second episode in our series exploring Filipino meditators affected by the Dhamma of the Golden Land. Here, we tell the story of just one Filipino meditator: Raymond Riveria, or Mon for short.Mon was attracted to martial arts, but being raised Catholic, he was initially skeptical of Asian forms of religious practice. His first formal practice came in the form of Christian meditation, and he was then intrigued by the secular framing of the vipassana organization in the tradition of S.N. Goenka.Mon took a course, and was hooked, going on...