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View submission: Why Buddhism?
I'm a former Catholic nun, having belonged to a cloistered contemplative community, but after a few years realized that I had too many unanswered questions to be able to stay with them. I entered when I was 19 years old. When I turned 57 I was diagnosed with cancer, had successful surgery, but developed panic syndrome and anxiety. At the same time that I was recovering at home on FMLA, the Tohoku earthquake off of Japan occurred and it was witnessing the steady, calm behavior of those survivors and their background in Buddhism that made me look to it for help. Eventually I began to investigate Tibetan Buddhism because, if a highly adept yogi/yogini can control their own body temperature despite the freezing cold, I figured it could also give me the wisdom and training to rid myself of panicking. I haven't yet studied the Six Yogas of Naropa, but I don't need to now, as my depression and anxiety lifted last year and I was able to go off medication. Some philosophies are older and deeper than others and have figured out how the mind works. These are heavy subjects that a "blind faith" religion can't possibly handle.
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