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DHARMA & DEVOTION

What is your relationship with Buddhism? Are you Buddhist?

Buddhism makes more sense to me than anything else. When I reach for spiritual literature, it’s always Buddhist, or almost always. I have a meditation practice, and often listen to a meditation of Thich Nhat Hanh’s on following the breath. It’s fourteen minutes long, and there isn’t a word in it that isn’t both true and useful.

At the same time, it’s complicated for me, having been raised in an Orthodox Jewish home, it always felt to me like it was either that way or no way—there was either that path or no path.

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