SPIRITUALITY Living with a Buddhist Family in Japan Brought Me Back to the Fold Living with a Buddhist Family in Japan Brought Me Back to the Fold I went looking for freedom. I’d landed in the wrong place. by Marjorie Ordene

 

SPIRITUALITY     Living with a Buddhist Family in Japan Brought Me Back to the Fold         I went looking for freedom. I’d landed in the wrong place.     by Marjorie Ordene     In the summer after my junior year of high school, in 1970, I caught the countercultural bug spreading across America. I had met some “radicals” on a teen tour and I was hooked. Instead of playing the A-student who followed all the rules, I decided to rebel. I read books like The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and longed for my first psychedelic experience. I wore ragged jeans and faded T-shirts and sought out the company of like-minded “hippie-radicals.” School spirit was out, disdain and disrespect were in. Of course, my parents were concerned, but what could they do? Read More       What Matters to You: A Journey of an Unsatisfied Soul by Beth Firestone     Why Sukkot Speaks to Us Now More Than Ever by Slovie Jungreis-Wolff     [VIDEO] How to Live in a State of Happiness: The Secret of Sukkot by Eitiel Goldwicht     Where Was the Other Ram? by Ahava S. Ehrenpreis Weekly Torah Portion Click Here...   Today's Quote – Tishrei 12 Today's Photo – Tishrei 12 Noam Chen’s glorious photo of the Temple Mount, the site of the Holy of Holies from where God gathered the dust to create Adam and where both Temples were built.     Featured at Aish.com     Sukkot and Corona: Three Major Messages   Lessons from My Father and Childhood in the Segregated South     Marital Survival Guide: From I to L   [TODAY'S RECIPE] Goulash