Buddhist People

Video here of an interview with a Roman Catholic convert to Zen practice. From Religion and Ethics Newsweekly.

clipped from www.pbs.org BELIEF & PRACTICE: Zen Convert The Zen practice and the Buddhist tradition [are] based on nature and space and simplicity. It really was life-changing, mind-changing for me. One of the big differences for me between the two traditions is the idea of how we’re born. In the Western tradition, there is the idea of original sin. The Eastern tradition comes from the point of view that we’re born perfect, and every moment is really complete and perfect. How do you not be a bystander in your life but … be an active participant in your life? What I get from Zen Buddhism is the ability to live this life, this moment, now.