There I participated in my first retreat and met Zen Master Dae Gak . On February 28th 1999, my significant other and I took the precepts at Dae Do Sah. During the ceremony we we given Buddhist names. The following picture is a scan of Do Gak as it appears on my precepts certificate. I am also now a member of the Kwan Um School of Zen .
Practice still goes on.
My formal practice is now to do 108 prostrations and then sit for 35 minutes every day. Because as I said earlier, I had already discovered by myself some of the Buddhists views about life. Also, when I was about 17 years old, I had a bizare experience. On my way back from a general store, I felt for a fraction of a second that everything was interconnected as part of something bigger. At first, I was troubled by this experience.