Introduction

When I got ordained by during the Western Buddhist order, in the last few months we've suddenly become the tree ratman. So these words sort of become universal, tree ratman, and in the word, tree jaws. But when I came along in 1981 it was definitely the trends of the Western Buddhist Order. This is a kind of life story, but it's a Buddhist life story, because clearly, what it's clear to me, I wasn't born a Buddhist.