doing my duty as a quarter-life-crisis college-educated 20-something and have been exploring buddhism!
i am drawn to it not necessarily as a religion but more as a philosophy what with the aspects of quieting your mind and finding inner peace and such.
it started when ryan and i went to flagstaff for a day trip earlier this month. we were walking around snow-topped downtown and came across this little used bookstore, where i found a copy of thich nhat hanh’s fragrant palm leaves. the book is composed of his diary entries from when he was a young monk studying and teaching at princeton and columbia during the 1960s. some things in the book have sparked my wikipedia curiosity, which inevitably lead to my finding a bbc documentary entitled, “bbc: the life of buddha”. it all is very interesting to learn about and reading the book always leaves me with a nice calm.
