Source: The Buddhist Channel/Idaho Statesman
http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=65,5787,0,0,1,0
"We have the Buddha nature inside all of us," Dana Marsh says, smiling. "We just have to sit and it will uncover. Pay attention and we can recognize it."
She sits across the table sipping hot tea, draped in bright red and creamy white. Her home is comfortably uncluttered but not spartan: a little Zen, but not too much so.
With her broad smile and bare feet, she is the picture of stillness. A naturally cultivated calm radiates from her. It is a calm that once eluded her but now is part of her daily Buddhist practice.
"My whole life has been on a spiritual - quest sounds too New-Age-ish - but journey or path," she says. "Buddhism hit home. It touched my heart and opened me up right away. It wasn't something I was searching for, but I was searching for something, for a meaning to life."
Marsh is a newly ordained Buddhist teacher. It is somewhat rare for a Western woman to become a Buddhist teacher, but it is part of the emerging American Buddhism movement that is highly inclusive and progressive.