“I am 9 years old, and I am an only child. I like it, but I would like to have a little brother or sister. It can get lonely sometimes. When my friends come to visit me, we play house, we pretend, or we ride our bikes. Riding my bike…
“I don’t want to remember Vietnam at all. I am a victim of the communists. A lot of bad things happened. I try to forget it, but I can’t. In my life in the United States, going to the temple, reading and chanting the sutras, talking and listening to the…
“Already in High School I thought about Buddhism, not because I questioned the validity of my faith, because I grew up Catholic, I just didn’t believe there was anything wrong with other religions. When I was growing up, my parents separated and got a divorce. It wasn’t an easy divorce,…
“I am a chaplain at a psychiatric center at an acute care facility, where people are mostly involuntarily, because they have tried to harm themselves or sometimes others. So I often meet people in a time of near death, brought from the ER. They are facing the consequences of…
