A Catholic nun taught me my Buddhist mantra

During my last week of graduate school, I had the great fortune of working with one of my professors one-on-one. Sister Celia Chua is a Catholic nun and a practicing Buddhist who was raised in China and the Philippines where she found peace in both disciplines. (The two are not viewed as contradictory by the Catholic Church so long as the practitioner doesn’t believe in reincarnation or other conflicting…