As I See It with Alan Clements

As I See It with Alan Clements

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  • 5 A Dhamma Appeal To The Sangha —the Monks and Nuns—in Myanmar and Buddhist Groups, Teachers

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    A Dhamma Appeal To The Sangha —the Monks and Nuns—in Myanmar and Buddhist Groups, Teachers and Followers connected to Dharma in Burma Worldwide -- to Join the D-CDM —Dhamma-rooted Civil Disobedience Movement in Myanmar NOW.: 2.15.21 Alan Clements A Day in the Life Under Dictatorship

    https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/commentary/day-military-dictatorship-myanmar.html?fbclid=IwAR19kBB_16Hkmj8nP7o0NSB62wqLeBqk7xn--3a4hWHWqfZf5rnJxUL4qgI

    35 min
  • 4 A Dhamma Appeal to the Myanmar Military and Police Force—Why You Should Join the CDM

    IF MOVED PLEASE SHARE WIDELY while there is still time and hope. We Stand With The People of Myanmar: A Dhamma Appeal to the Myanmar Military and Police Force—Why You Should Join the CDM —Civil Disobedience Movement Immediately: 2.14.21 Alan Clements War Crimes Reward for Gen Min Aung Hlaing https://www.state.gov/war-crimes-rewards-program/ Such a thin line at times between right and wrong, good and bad, truth and lies. If our dharma has meaning it must include redemption and reconciliation. This is the driving ethos of Aung San Suu Kyi and the entire peoples' movement for democracy in Myanmar. The oppressors get scared the closer they get to their hearts. I believe that evil is the fear of intimacy and violence is the defense mechanism to protect it. How easy it would be to want to kill the evil but we become evil in the process. Thus, nonviolent civil disobedience is the only wise response to elevate both the oppressor and the oppressed, and pray bring change, and soon. Please join me in this daily series of outtakes on the crisis in Burma and the struggle for freedom of expression worldwide. Everyday 9:30 AM Pacific

    39 min
  • 3 We Stand With The People Of Myanmar - A Dhamma Appeal To Myanmar Sr Gen Min Aung Hlaing

    IF MOVED PLEASE SHARE WIDELY while there is still time and hope. We Stand With The People of Myanmar: A Dhamma Appeal to Myanmar Sr Gen Min Aung Hlaing To End The Military Coup d e'tate Immediately and to release Aung San Suu Kyi and all others illegally detained. 2.11.21 Alan Clements 🙏

    Such a thin line at times between right and wrong, good and bad, truth and lies. If our dharma has meaning it must include redemption and reconciliation. This is the driving ethos of Aung San Suu Kyi and the entire peoples' movement for democracy in Myanmar. The oppressors get scared the closer they get to their hearts. I believe that evil is the fear of intimacy and violence is the defense mechanism to protect it. How easy it would be to want to kill the evil but we become evil in the process. Thus, nonviolent civil disobedience is the only wise response to elevate both the oppressor and the oppressed, and pray bring change, and soon. Please join me in this upcoming daily series of outtakes on the crisis of conscience both in Burma and around the world. Everyday 9:30 AM Pacific here in Los Angeles.

    40 min
  • The Power of Ethical Spiritual Intelligence

    Alan Clements' Burma: Voices of Freedom is a monumental achievement, a work more than three decades in the making. Alan interviewed hundreds of people for the book in order to examine the intersecting lines of Burmese Buddhist practice and the (more worldly) turbulent, political history of the country. He decided to sit for just one full-length interview on his recent publication--and we were delighted that it is here, on the Insight Myanmar Podcast! Alan had joined us for an interview with us several months ago, and so were honored to welcome him back to the show to discuss this recent work in depth. (If you'd like to hear more on his own fascinating background in the country, take a listen here.) The book is co-authored with his long-time colleague and assistant, Fergus Harlow.

    In Alan's own words, the pages of Burma: Voices of Freedom "cover the historic national election of the National League of Democracy (NLD) to Parliament, the Rohingya crisis, the nature of totalitarianism and the efficacy of nonviolence, the radicalization of militant Buddhist monks and the role of Islamic terrorism, interspersed within the jagged landscape of a nation's ongoing struggle for freedom, rule of law, and national reconciliation." His book explores not only what has taken place in the country, but where things stand now as well as his hopes for where things might go.

    Although Alan is one of the more knowledgeable foreigners to live in and write about Burma, for this project he chose to step into the background, and turn the mic over to wide range of voices within Burmese society: young and old, top leaders and everyday people, and spanning a diverse background of people from various religious faiths, ethnicities, and regions. Alan's approach is not a dry, scholastic work, but rather one that is animated by his own depth of meditative insight and Buddhist knowledge.

    In our interview, we explore Alan's process in writing the book, along with some challenges and surprises that came into the process along the way. We discuss the overlapping lines of spiritual and worldly affairs and how they interact in the context of modern Myanmar. We go on to examine the profound role that the liberating teachings of the Buddha has played and can continue to play in the country's transformation, balanced with the sensitive need to ensure a separation between Church and State and to welcome the role of non-Buddhist communities in a pluralistic society.

    2 hr 49 min

About As I See It with Alan Clements

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As I See It with Alan Clements is a series of extemporaneous unedited presentations and dialogues from Alan's World Dharma Public Forums, exploring contemporary spiritual, psychological, and…