Hi, I’m Clarke Scott – a writer, musician and former Buddhist monk.

I write about the human experience as best as I can – sharing my journey along the way. The thrust of my work is the search for truth, peace, and meaning.

Back in the day I was an aspiring musician, writing songs and gigging around my home town of Melbourne, Australia before I ran off to become a monk.

I went to music school and studied jazz. I played tenor saxophone. Six months into my degree, I came across Buddhism, and decided to drop everything except Buddhism. Friends and family thought I was crazy but it felt like the right thing to do, and in hindsight it was.

Between 1995 and 2009, I lived and studied Buddhist philosophy and meditation directly from HHDL and several other Tibetan lamas.

In 2009 I left my monastery and moved to Tasmania, Australia to join a Ph.D., program. There I researched notions of the self in Eastern and Western philosophy. This also gave me the opportunity to live in North India in the same small village as the Dalai Lama. I was there for two years.

I loved it. Although I can no longer eat Indian food. Life is a journey!

I still meditate daily. And I am currently working on my first album and have a newsletter called, Notes on a Contemplative Life where I share my personal experience living as a contemplative in this modern world.