From Bonham To Buddha; Clementine Moss

Clementine Moss is a rock drummer and author of the book From Bonham to Buddha and Back. She is also a spiritual counselor and a nondenominational Minister at The Foundation for the Sacred Stream. Using the modalities of Depth Hypnosis, Applied Shamanism, Energy Medicine, Sound Healing, and Morphic Awakening techniques, Clem has an active healing practice. She is certified in Contemplative Psychotherapy and Conflict Resolution. A Vipassana meditator for over thirty years, her study and personal practice spans many traditions. Clem lives in San Francisco with music manager and musician Tim Moss and Henry the Pug. Her writing has appeared in Modern Drummer Magazine, Memoir Magazine, and other online publications.

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• Website: www.clemthegreat.com
• Book: From Bonham To Buddha and Back: The Slow Enlightenment of The Hard Rock Drummer by Clementine Moss

Most Influential Person

• S. N. Guenka (Meditation Teacher)

Effect On Emotions

• I have that observer within me that watches things rising and falling out falling now for a while. For many years in my life, I thought that mindfulness was so that we didn't have to feel our emotions anymore. We didn't have to be in that, I realized, is an ignorance within us. We're supposed to feel fully. But if I feel sorrow fully, but I don't say I am a sad person. It's two different things. Do I identify with the emotions? Or do I allow myself to feel it fully?

Thoughts On Breathing

• Breathing is the great gift. The deep breath, the holding of the breath, the holding the bottom of the breath; all of those are wonderful techniques for us to turn on our parasympathetic nervous system to quiet the mind to let the body know it's safe.
• So the thoughts of fear that are constantly rising from our physicality, quiet down, and we can access that awareness underneath all the thoughts.

Bullying Story

• I was bullied in junior high school, I grew very quickly. I was five feet eight inches tall in junior high school. And I was the tallest student and was taller than some of my teachers. I was gawky and had goofy hair. So I came from an elementary school where I was the president of the Student Council was kind of this celebrated person.
• And then I got into junior high school and got bullied by other girls. It was very painful and a big shock to me that people were cruel that way. And I retreated into myself and so, you know, that stays with you. It's fear, right? Fear of judgment. I think around that time that internal negative voice became a megaphone within me. And it's been something I've fought and tried to understand through my whole life.
• Now, do I see a benefit of that experience? Quite a bit. It drove me to understanding myself in psychology and spiritual practice.
• When you can feel another's pain, you can't bully them. And, and when you're bullied, you can see I can look at those girls, and I can see what they were afraid of. I can see where it was coming from. it. It opens empathy. It's only compassion that problems would solve.

Suggested Resources

• Books: Anything by Alan Watts and Robert Thurman
• Book: Bhagavad Gita As It Is by A. C. Bhaktivedanta
• App: Audible – Lectures by Alan Watts
• App: Bob Thurman Podcast – Buddhas Have More Fun

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• Music for Mindfulness; Dave Combs
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