[gmku]

I'm a Zen Buddhist. Even went through lay ordination (go ahead and snicker) a few years back. It's kind of like baptism for Buddhists.

For a long time in the 90s, I "sat" regularly, both on my own and in the "zendo" during regular morning services and the longer "seshins". It takes a certain diligence, though, and while I still try to keep the Zen precepts in mind as a guide to living my life, I haven't sat in meditation for a couple of years. I've noticed a difference, too. I'm much less calm than I was when I meditated.