I have lived in Tanzania (where I was born), India (my family's country of origin) and for the most part in England; hence my psychological make-up is moulded from both eastern and western cultures. I have been indoctrinated in to a number of belief systems (Hinduism, Christianity and Nihilism) but after discovering Buddhism have considered myself a 'lay-Buddhist' during the last seventeen years (through reading books on Buddhism and putting my new found knowledge into practice in daily life). My vocational training and career (spanning over thirty years) has been in the world of science (Chem...