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This blog is designed to help folks interested in Buddhism communicate with each other, share problems and practices, and ask questions in a friendly and informal way. You may or may not consider yourself a Lay Buddhist (person who practices some form of meditation and follows some type of Buddhist tradition).  This blog welcomes all persons interested in any of the many schools and traditions of Buddhism that have flowered in the "West". I'll listen to it all. 

I am a lay Buddhist who follows the practice in the Plum Village Tradition of Zen Master, Thich Nhat Hanh. I was previously a member of the  Soto Zen Buddhist Center/Temple of Chicago under Kongo Richard Langlois. I have also attended a retreat led by Chogyam Trungpa, one led by Michael Ciborski of Morning Star Mindfulness Center and two led by Terry Cortes, Dharma Teacher in the Plum Village Tradition. So a mixed experience, probably not unlike those who might find this blog of interest.

I make no claim to being enlightened or especially wise, but I have been a lay Buddhist since I read Susuki's Roshi's Zen Mind, Beginners Mind in my twenties.  I am now 77. So with fits and starts, this path is mine.

Bonnie

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