I took the Buddha’s path early in 2001. I remember the time because it was the week that the Taliban dynamited the great Buddhas of Bamiyan. I remember thinking, “How does my new faith, the lovely, peaceful religion of Lord Buddha ask me to react to such a terrible desecration?”
In early 2001, I was having trouble adapting to a new job I had taken six months earlier. I was looking for something to bring me peace and to help me to feel less insecure. I wasn’t sure I was up for the tasks required of me.
I had meditated on and off since high school in the late sixties and found it calmed me. So, I went to the local Barnes and Noble and bought a book called, It’s easier than You Think: the Buddhist Way to Happiness by Sylvia Boorstein. That wonderful little book brought me the dharma.
