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I became a Buddhist after looking for the core religeous experience in Orthodox Catholicism. I studied science, philosophy and literature looking for answers to "who am I? where did I come from? what am I doing here? where do I go after death?" Science doesn't answer these although I understand physics is starting to approach some of these questions. I found I had an affinity for Zen and that it could answer questions the kinds of questions science and western religeon didn't. I have been, formally, a student of Buddhism in general and Zen in particular for twenty years.

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