[enlightened]

Team Manager,
I'm intrigued by your travels :) I have visiting China as top on my agenda under MUST DO IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. Anyway, my mom is Buddhist, and while I do not consider myself a Buddhist, I am a student of Eastern philosophy. I don't have yet volumes of Deepak Chopra :) but I have read some texts that incorporate a lot of Buddhist principles that I found 'life altering.' I did not grow up in a religious household so my folks always encouraged us to explore. I've heard some of the Dalai Lama's speeches, and some of them 'click'. So I guess, in a nutshell, I'm still exploring and Eastern philosophy is my current interest :)