Buddhist author to discuss
liberation through living

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Star-Bulletin staff

Author Alan Clements, founder of the World Dharma movement, which teaches putting meditation into action to transform conditions in the world, will give a free Honolulu lecture Friday and conduct a workshop next weekend.

His talk from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday at the University of Hawaii Krauss Hall, Yukiyoshi Room 12, will be based on his new book, "Instinct for Freedom: Finding Liberation Through Living."

Clements, of Vancouver, B.C., spent five years as a Buddhist monk in Burma in the 1980s, where he trained in Buddhist psychology and insight meditation.

He has written about the country, now called Myanmar, in "Burma: The Next Killing Fields?" and "The Voice of Hope," based on interviews with Aung San Suu Kyi, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991 for her leadership of nonviolent resistance to the military regime.

His latest book will be the basis for a noncredit workshop from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. next Saturday at the same location. The fee is $85. For registration information, call Pacific New Media, 956-8400.

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