Well, this is  a lot less straight forward than my Catholicism.  For as long as I can remember, Buddhism has held a certain intrigue for me.   Throughout the years I had done some cursory  reading about Buddhism.  I first read Siddartha    (Herman Hesse, 1982) and became familiar with the work of Anthony DeMello while in the convent.   However, I found it all very confusing and the unfamiliar  language was difficult for me to follow.   Early in 2007,  in an incidental conversation ,  someone told me that they were  studying the correlation between the Buddhist "Four Noble Truths"  and interpersonal relationships (or something to that effect).   I remember that at that moment, I had an actual physical sensation that something in me sort of "snapped" to attention.   I needed to study Buddhism.  So, I started with a trusted author, Karen Armstrong and read her book entitled simply Buddha.  I also started  surfing the 'net for  information,  however, again became quickly  overwhelmed by all the information.  I could not make heads nor tails out of all the  "types" of Buddhism that  I came across.  This time, however, I decided to stick with it.  I started bookmarking sites that seemed to hold information that I would come back to.   Again in a conversation, a name was mentioned to me that I thought sounded familiar.  When I got home, sure enough, I had bookmarked a site by that name.  And so I began delving into the  works and teachings of Pema Chodron, an American  Buddhist  nun.  I have read her books and downloaded talks that I listen to on my iPod.  (seems a bit incongruous to be listening  to talks about ancient teachings on an iPod ..... but hey, the year before  I  had listened  to the Confessions of St. Augustine on the same iPod!)  I have found her  works to have  the same  effect, to resonate with me, in the same way that Thomas Merton's Seven Storey Mountain did when I read it as a young adult.   I have not officially  Taken Refuge in the Three Jewels or participated in any kind of initiation rite.  Who knows what the future may hold?  At this time, the path to follow in my quest to know the Divine, seems to be found in the Dharma.