Alan Clements

Alan Clements Live from Bali Communion with the Feminine Daily Spontaneous Personal Talks My Dharma on the Tender Edge of Life Talk # 1: November 1, 2026 (32 minutes)

They Bombed the Monastery: Will the World Awaken? After the bombing of Mahasi Sayadaw’s home monastery in Burma’s Sagaing region, the world’s Buddhist, mindfulness, and insight meditation communities must join forces for Burma's freedom Published by Mizzima Myanmar News READ HERE: eng.mizzima.com/2026/10/31/4… A personal reflection by Alan Clements

ALAN CLEMENTS Live from Bali The World Dharma Edge of My Life Finding Liberation Through Living Live spontaneous talks Daily, 8–8:30 a.m. Bali time Facebook Live • IG • YouTube • X I’m honored to invite you into a daily space of reflection—the world Dharma edge of my life, finding liberation through living. These will be spontaneous talks about what’s dear to my heart: the edges I’m living with, the fantasies, the joys, the sorrows, the grief, and the vision. Simply me, reflecting on the edges of me and sharing what I’m discovering along the way. It’s been a long time since I’ve stepped into public view this way. While I’m here in Bali, I want to be more visible and use my voice more actively—to speak from where I am, with the questions I’m living, the uncertainties I’m navigating, and the possibilities that keep calling me forward. If this speaks to you, I hope you’ll tune in. I’d be honored to have you join me.

Aung San Suu Kyi and the courage to lead beyond domination DVB: Democratic Voice of Burma October 26, 2026 Alan Clements english.dvb.no/aung-san-suu-…

Myanmar’s dictator -Min Aung Hlaing - threatens to “eliminate” journalists: Open Dialogue with the Myanmar Media and Journalists Is Far Preferable to Their “Elimination” An intimate appeal to conscience, to the Dhamma, and to the courage to end the war on your own people Dear friends, There’s been an alarming public announcement by the regime in Burma. The regime’s newspaper, Kyemon, has called for the “elimination of any destructive element inside or outside the country.” Alongside this threat, the regime is attempting to enlist Interpol in its pursuit of five independent media outlets—The Irrawaddy, Mizzima, DVB, Myanmar Now, and Khit Thit—and the journalists and contributing writers who supply their news, seeking their detention, the confiscation of their passports, and, if necessary, their deportation to Myanmar. As an author, journalist and contributing writer supplying these independent media outlets with essays, articles and commentary, I am among those directly affected by this malicious threat. The regime is seeking to turn international police cooperation into an instrument of political repression—to draw Interpol into complicity in its campaign against independent journalism. Its requests do not establish that Interpol has agreed to participate. The intimidation reaches beyond the organizations themselves to the people who sustain their journalism—the reporters, editors, and contributing writers supplying news, investigations, articles, and commentary, including those of us writing from exile or abroad. We are caring human beings exposing a dictatorship’s violence. The language of “elimination” casts a chilling shadow over our work and our lives. Min Aung Hlaing: Open Dialogue with the Myanmar Media and Journalists Is Far Preferable to Their “Elimination” Read my response here on my Substack alanclements.substack.com/p/…? Or Mizzima Myanmar News website and please share. eng.mizzima.com/2026/10/16/3…? The more widely we illuminate this urgent threat of “elimination” against independent media outlets and the journalists who supply their news, the greater our chance of prevailing. God bless this battle of conscience over domination, love over oppression, and dialogue over death. From my heart to yours. Thank you for caring and thank you for being in my life. Alan Clements Ubud, Bali READ ALAN'S PUBLISHED LETTER TO HIM ON HIS SUBSTACK alanclements.substack.com/p/…?

Min Aung Hlaing: Open Dialogue with the Myanmar Media and Journalists Is Far Preferable to Their “Elimination” by Alan Clements Read more : eng.mizzima.com/2026/10/16/3…

THE COURAGE TO BECOME FREE Patriarchy, Childhood Trauma, Psychedelic Healing, Forgiveness, and the Radical Transformation of a Human Life Alan Clements in Conversation with Treya Klassen Watch the video on YouTube youtu.be/xhfEztoEn8g?si=H9WT…

WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW THE FREEDOM OF THE HEART: Science, Wildness, Multi-Eyed Seeing, and the Courage to Belong Alan Clements in Conversation with Natalie Schmitt Every so often, I enter a conversation thinking I am going to interview someone, only to discover that something more mysterious has begun to happen. The questions loosen, biography recedes, accomplishment becomes secondary, and two people begin listening from somewhere beneath the prepared language. My conversation with Natalie Schmitt became that kind of encounter. Natalie is a conservation geneticist, scientist, inventor, adventurer, and lifelong student of the natural world. Her work has taken her from humpback whales and snow leopards to caribou in northern Canada, remote islands of Myanmar, the Southern Ocean near Antarctica, and collaborations with Indigenous and traditional communities. Yet what moved me most was not the extraordinary geography of her life, but what all those years of looking so closely at life have done to her heart. We found ourselves exploring the limits of science, Indigenous knowledge, conservation, violence, ecology, consciousness, trauma, intimacy, compassion, and what Natalie calls “multi-eyed seeing”—the humility of recognizing that no single way of knowing is sufficient to comprehend the astonishing complexity of being alive. Beneath it all was a question increasingly important to me: can we remain rigorous without becoming imprisoned by what we know, spiritually open without escaping reality, and vulnerable enough to love without surrendering our discernment or freedom? This unedited exchange is a small taste of our forthcoming book, Conversations with Visionary Women, a labor of love that Krystal Dyan and I have been creating together. Natalie’s is one of 26 long-form conversations already gathered, with another 15 remarkable women awaiting confirmation in the coming days. We are now moving toward completing, designing, and publishing the book sometime in November. I am deeply grateful to Natalie for her intelligence, vulnerability, curiosity, and generosity. I hope you will watch this glimpse into The Freedom of the Heart not in search of final answers, but with enough curiosity, tenderness, skepticism, and wonder to allow the questions themselves to open something unexpected. From my heart to yours, Alan Clements

Dear friends, I’ve just published a new essay on my Substack, based on an edited transcription of a World Dharma talk I gave here in Bali several years ago, titled The Pathology of Being Present: Mindful Intelligence, Moral Courage, Psychedelic Activism, and Why Awareness Without Conscience May Not Be Wisdom at All. At the heart of the essay is a question that has followed me through decades of meditation, activism, spiritual inquiry, and the bewildering education of being alive: Is being present necessarily wise? An assassin can be intensely present while looking through the scope of a rifle. Mindful intelligence asks the deeper questions: Who am I about to kill? Why do I believe this person is my enemy? Is what I believe true? And will this action actually serve the peace I claim to want? The essay explores the difference between awareness alone and awareness joined with conscience, discernment, moral imagination, and responsibility. It asks whether our practices merely help us become more comfortable with the world as it is, or awaken within us the intelligence and courage to question what we are participating in and what kind of world our choices are creating. The essay is offered freely. If it speaks to you, please share it with others and subscribe to my Substack. And if you feel inspired to offer a donation in support of my continuing work, it would be deeply appreciated and can be made directly on the Substack page. Please read the article on my Substack here: alanclements.substack.com/..…...? The Pathology of Being Present⁠ From my heart to yours, Alan Clements Bali, 2026