Janet Ettele

pages, little quotes that were from the Buddha or Buddha's teaching. And everything I've read really struck a chord for me. I thought this makes so much sense. It's just very practical. It's wise. You could just feel the wisdom in it. And I started researching books, reading as many books as I could on the subject. And every book I read said, if you want to

pages, little quotes that were from the Buddha or Buddha's teaching. And everything I've read really struck a chord for me. I thought this makes so much sense. It's just very practical. It's wise. You could just feel the wisdom in it. And I started researching books, reading as many books as I could on the subject. And every book I read said, if you want to

pages, little quotes that were from the Buddha or Buddha's teaching. And everything I've read really struck a chord for me. I thought this makes so much sense. It's just very practical. It's wise. You could just feel the wisdom in it. And I started researching books, reading as many books as I could on the subject. And every book I read said, if you want to

use these teachings if you want to bring them into your life in a meaningful way you need to find a teacher long story short it turns out five miles from my house is a tibetan buddhist center for universal peace and that goes back i want to say 16 years ago when i first began going and listening to teachings and continuing to study and read. And in the course of those 16 years, I met someone.

use these teachings if you want to bring them into your life in a meaningful way you need to find a teacher long story short it turns out five miles from my house is a tibetan buddhist center for universal peace and that goes back i want to say 16 years ago when i first began going and listening to teachings and continuing to study and read. And in the course of those 16 years, I met someone.

use these teachings if you want to bring them into your life in a meaningful way you need to find a teacher long story short it turns out five miles from my house is a tibetan buddhist center for universal peace and that goes back i want to say 16 years ago when i first began going and listening to teachings and continuing to study and read. And in the course of those 16 years, I met someone.

During one of the classes, we had a break, and we were both talking about how much we wished that these teachings, which are so practical, and even though they're 2,500 years old, they still hold up. And wouldn't it be nice if we could find a way to bring them into Western culture today

During one of the classes, we had a break, and we were both talking about how much we wished that these teachings, which are so practical, and even though they're 2,500 years old, they still hold up. And wouldn't it be nice if we could find a way to bring them into Western culture today

During one of the classes, we had a break, and we were both talking about how much we wished that these teachings, which are so practical, and even though they're 2,500 years old, they still hold up. And wouldn't it be nice if we could find a way to bring them into Western culture today

without having to have people enter a Buddhist Dharma center or even decide to be Buddhist, just to be exposed to some of this wisdom. And I had at that time been writing newsletters to promote my coaching work and was weaving in some of the things I was learning with these newsletters. And so we talked about that. Turns out he was in the publishing business. He had his own

without having to have people enter a Buddhist Dharma center or even decide to be Buddhist, just to be exposed to some of this wisdom. And I had at that time been writing newsletters to promote my coaching work and was weaving in some of the things I was learning with these newsletters. And so we talked about that. Turns out he was in the publishing business. He had his own

without having to have people enter a Buddhist Dharma center or even decide to be Buddhist, just to be exposed to some of this wisdom. And I had at that time been writing newsletters to promote my coaching work and was weaving in some of the things I was learning with these newsletters. And so we talked about that. Turns out he was in the publishing business. He had his own

off like a very small imprint of his own publishing company that was dedicated to Buddhist teachings. And so he had this idea for a series and invited me to write them. And that's how it started. Yeah, so the first, the series he had in mind was based on a teaching called The Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life by Master Shantideva, who was an eighth century Buddhist monk and scholar.

off like a very small imprint of his own publishing company that was dedicated to Buddhist teachings. And so he had this idea for a series and invited me to write them. And that's how it started. Yeah, so the first, the series he had in mind was based on a teaching called The Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life by Master Shantideva, who was an eighth century Buddhist monk and scholar.

off like a very small imprint of his own publishing company that was dedicated to Buddhist teachings. And so he had this idea for a series and invited me to write them. And that's how it started. Yeah, so the first, the series he had in mind was based on a teaching called The Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life by Master Shantideva, who was an eighth century Buddhist monk and scholar.

And so these guide to the Bodhisattva's way of life is also known as the six perfections. So the idea was to have a book for each of the perfections and to write them as fictional, contemporary, with contemporary characters living ordinary lives. And you get to see the main character learn, think about what he's been taught,

And so these guide to the Bodhisattva's way of life is also known as the six perfections. So the idea was to have a book for each of the perfections and to write them as fictional, contemporary, with contemporary characters living ordinary lives. And you get to see the main character learn, think about what he's been taught,

And so these guide to the Bodhisattva's way of life is also known as the six perfections. So the idea was to have a book for each of the perfections and to write them as fictional, contemporary, with contemporary characters living ordinary lives. And you get to see the main character learn, think about what he's been taught,

begin to put the teachings into practice in a way that any of us could really relate to. Does that answer your question?

begin to put the teachings into practice in a way that any of us could really relate to. Does that answer your question?