Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Have you ever met someone who's quite Buddha-like and you're like,

oh, yes, I want to be like them.

They appear Zen, they appear peaceful, they appear enlightened maybe, certainly evolved. To me, someone who is

very conscious and in non-judgmental appears Buddha-like in my vision of what that means.

And today I'm reading the Tickna Hahn's story from his book at Home in the World, Lessons from

A Remarkable Life, called

Drawing of the Buddha.

When I was a small boy of seven or eight, I happened to see a drawing of the Buddha on the cover

of a Buddhist magazine.

The Buddha was sitting on the grass very peacefully, and I was impressed.

I thought the artist must have had a lot of peace and

calm within himself at the time to be able to draw such a special image. Just looking at the

drawing made me happy, because so many people around me at the time were not very calm or happy

at all. Seeing this peaceful image, the idea came to me that I wanted to become someone like

that Buddha, someone who could sit very still and calm. Gosh, how seldom, by the way,

side note here, do we sit, calm, calmly, how often are we still? People are running around. My gosh, like there's somewhere

to be as if we're all, we're not all heading to the same ending. Okay, back to the story.

I think that was the moment when I first wanted to become a monk, although I didn't know

how to describe it in that way at the time. The Buddha is not a god, who was very much a human

being like the rest of us. Like many of us, he suffered greatly as a teenager. He saw the

suffering in his kingdom and saw how his father, King Sudhudhudana, tried to reduce the suffering

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