How it all started
I never intended to be a monk when I was growing up. No interest inventory ever pointed me toward Buddhist monasticism and no career counselor in high school recommended I pursue this. They had more practical suggestions, lke studying history or maybe joining the military – whichever I prefered.
My foray into Buddhism began at the age of 12 when I was stuck in my grandmother’s oven-hot trailer in Florida, bored to tears and needing something to do. I found my way to a book store and bought the Dhammapada after reading the cover. Interesting book.
Since then, I have not stopped being interested and finding new layers of Buddhist philosophy to examine and appreciate. It’s a bit like the petals of a lotus flower, whose opening brings such beauty to the world and whose core is covered by the several intertwined layers of petals.
Such was the beginning.
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