During his formal training as a Buddhist monk in Burma, Alan Clements had the good fortune to study with two of the most respected meditation masters of our time, the late Mahasi Sayadaw and his successor Sayadaw U Pandita. As fragrance is innate to a flower, so too is freedom innate to the heart.
Freedom is our essence.
It's all around you, and in you. It comes from the inside out, and flows through the pores of your entire being. Herein lies natural freedom. Remembering we have nothing to fear when we are true to ourselves. The authentic spiritual life is not about fitting in, or transcending some imaginary self.