In Junior High, I memorized the Sermon on the Mount.
The resu.
Thus began a project, now decades long, of attempting to integrate the two.
I was struck by the similarity between some of Jesus\'s words in the Sermon on the Mount and the teachings of Buddha.
That changed in the mid 1990\'s after I had attended a number of intensive Buddhist retreats in the Vipassana tradition.
I had little concern for what the words meant.
I was bored in a church membership class and wanted a challenge.
In Junior High, I memorized the Sermon on the Mount