Alan Clements

The Dharma life, that of following our instinct for freedom requires involvement in everything. Every emotion, every mind state, every expression of being is valuable, important to know and learn from....

Whether someone admits it or not doesn’t matter, I think everyone wants to be touched — physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Everyone wants to be loved. To be heard. To feel special. People want to be swept off their feet — erotically...

Alan Clements was the first American to pioneer the dharma from the Buddhist country of Burma, where he lived in a monastery during the 1970s and 80s, five years of which he spent as a monk. During this time he trained in Buddhist psychology and...