Source: Orange County Register
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/homepage/article_1564855.php
Sitting in a police squad car is not typical in the life of Kusala Bhikshu.
For the 57-year-old Buddhist monk, practicing Zen meditation and tending to koi fish is a normal day.
Yet, he sits next to Garden Grove Police Officer Michael Guadan, perfectly at ease, chatting about towed cars, adult bookstores and the war in Iraq.
His name is Kusala, which means "skilled." "Bhikshu" merely means "monk" in Sanskrit, an ancient East Indian language.
"So, there's Cher, there's Madonna and then there's me - Kusala," he says.
He is not wearing his monk's robes this afternoon. Instead, he's sporting a pair of black jeans, a T-shirt pulled over a bullet-proof vest and a black jacket with the word "chaplain" embroidered on the back.