Instinct for Freedom (häftad)
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2019-03-22
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Instinct for Freedom

Finding Liberation Through Living

av Alan E Clements
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2019-03-22
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Alan Clements is an author, activist, performing artist and one of the first Americans to become a Buddhist monk in the country of Burma (Myanmar), where he lived for years training in intensive mindfulness meditation and existential Buddhist psychology. Since leaving Burma, he has become a spiritual maverick, working for global human rights and sharing his contemporary understanding of liberation to audiences around the world.

After decades of leading retreats, Instinct for Freedom is radical book of personal and planetary exploration, a visionary blend of adventurous autobiography, self-inquiry and independent thinking. Here Alan presents what he calls World Dharma, an approach to personal development that mirrors the narrative of his visionary life. He gives voice to an essential calling that is common to all people — a world dharma based in one precious human value: freedom, the liberation from fear, ignorance and dogma, and the elevation of dignity, conscience, and beauty.

For Clements, freedom is rooted in real life experience, in holding life's complexities in balance with its wondrous gifts, and in the transformational power of relationships with other people and with the world. Exploring the nature of consciousness and our place in the mysterious cosmos may be the key to our freedom, he says. In detailing the early years of his Dharma life living in silence in a Burmese monastery, Clements presents a rare, beautiful, and nuanced account of the actual experience of intensive mindfulness meditation and what it can offer.

Yet Clements's approach is not a doctrine. It is an intuitive process realized through deep inner trust, gentle self-inquiry and naturalness of spirit and expresses itself in daily acts of courage and love. No amount of spiritual practice or meditative training can adequately prepare us for life, he says. We must find our liberation through living in love, in this very moment, now, in whatever circumstances we face.

Clements has been interviewed on ABC National, Talk to America, CBC, VOA, BBC, the New York Times, Time and Newsweek magazines, the Sydney Morning Herald, Utne Reader, Yoga Journal, and scores of other media worldwide. He also delivered a keynote at Amnesty International's 30th Year Anniversary at the John Ford Theater in LA. You can learn more about Alan's work on his website: www.AlanClements.com.

“How to describe Alan’s presentations? A tall order. Love poems/riffs/odes/chants to the goddesses of compassion, deeply inscribed with the blood of Burmese slaves, soldiers in Iraq, Palestinian children, freedom fighters anywhere. A momentary entry into an internal tête-à-tête, ad infinitum; a glimpse at all that inner discursive dialog which marks us unequivocally as members of the human race. Just in case we get too spiritual, let’s not forget that we are required to, by nature, include everything. To paraphrase the Vietnamese monk Thich ...
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during the course of his career clements has been interviewed on numerous television and radio programs, including abc’s nightline, cbs evening news, cbc and shaw tv in canada, german national tv, abc tv in australia, voice of america radio, radio free asia, the bbc, and in the new york times, london times, the guardian, san francisco chronicle, washington post, time and newsweek, yoga journal, utne, yes, and scores of other media worldwide. www.alanclements.com



“How to describe Alan’s presentations? A tall order. Love poems/riffs/odes/chants to the goddesses of compassion, deeply inscribed with the blood of Burmese slaves, soldiers in Iraq, Palestinian children, freedom fighters anywhere. A momentary entry into an internal tête-à-tête, ad infinitum; a glimpse at all that inner discursive dialog which marks us unequivocally as members of the human race. Just in case we get too spiritual, let’s not forget that we are required to, by nature, include everything. To paraphrase the Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hahn’s  poem, “Please Call Me by My True Names,” I am both the 12-year-old raped girl and the pirate who raped her. It is difficult to reconcile seeming opposites, and it takes the heart of a poet. Thich Nhat Hahn is a poet; Alan is one as well.”



—Marcia Jacobs, a psychotherapist specializing in victims of war, rape, and trauma; a senior U.N. representative for refugees in Bosnia and Croatia, 1993–1997; and a former officer of the International War Crimes Tribunal



“Alan’s life is material for a legend. An intellectual artist, freedom fighter, former Buddhist monk, he shares his insights and experience with a passion rarely seen and even more rarely lived. He’ll make you think and feel in ways that challenge your entire way of being.”



— Catherine Ingram, In the Footsteps of Gandhi and Passionate Presence



“I have known Alan for well over two decades. He is my first call when I seek insight and candor concerning personal and professional advice. As a speaker, his eloquence moves audiences to ask the questions behind questions about how we live, why we work, and how it fits together. Alan’s presence—his remarkable ability to engage an audience, connect with their heart—stands alongside the best talent I have seen in the world.”



— Robert Chartoff, Producer of Rocky, The Right Stuff, and Raging Bull.



“One of the most important and compelling voices of our times . . . Alan Clements is a riveting communicator — challenging and inspiring.  He articulates the essentials of courage and leadership in a way that can stir people from all sectors of society into action; his voice is not

only a great contribution during these changeful times, it is a needed one.”

— Jack Healy, former...

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table of contents instinct for freedom by alan clements

Introduction

PART ONE

The Struggle for Freedom

Seeking the Source of Suffering

A Turning Away from the World

Form Is Useful but Awareness Liberates

The Eyes of the Enemy

Burning in a World on Fire

Taking Responsibility for One’s Mind

The Heart of Darkness

The Quest for Greater Authenticity

Let’s Dance!

The Transformation of Consciousness

I Am the Freedom That I Seek

The Struggle for Freedom

Deep Trust

Freedom Has No Logo

The Everybody

A Revolution of the Spirit

Love Is an Action: Go Slowly, One Person at a Time

Suffering and Grace

The Pioneers of Consciousness



PART TWO

Consciousness, Meditation,

and the Great Unknown

Consciousness Is Home

Dharma Intelligence — The Way of Liberation

Meditation — The Study of Consciousness

The Essence of Meditation

Being with What Is

The Weightlessness of Nongrasping

Are You Enlightened?

Spiritual Urgency

Is Meditation the Practice of Narcissism?

A Touch of Love

Surrendering to Life, Fully

A Bed of Grace

A True Spiritual Friend

Entering the Stream of Liberation

There Is No Time Off from Freedom

Our Presence Is All We Have

The Weirdness of Everyday Life

The Serendipity of Destiny

Awareness Liberates, Not the Desire for Freedom

The End of the Beginning

Politicized Presence — Life beyond Nirvana

Looking Back, Then and Now

Evolving Realistic Attitude



PART THREE

World Dharma —

Liberation through Living

The Mysterious Totality That We Are

My Relationships Are Me

Existential Humanness

Awakened Presence — A Liberating Intimacy

Life Is Never Alone

Mutual Being — Us Right Now!

The Future of Freedom

The Reawakening of Beauty

Freedom Is Its Own Reward

Love Sets Us Free

To Be Touched

The Natural Life

Living as a Free Human Being

Acknowledgments

Index

About the Author

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