Sister Khanti Khema is an American woman who decided one day to find out what the Buddha actually did about suffering by surrendering to a total immersion program of training through Buddhist teachings. Training with a very respected teacher and doing the experiment of personal investigation for herself was the advice of some Bangladeshi elders she consulted before starting! Having spent three years in Asia in a Karate dojo when she was younger, this was not such an unusual request to take on one teacher for the perfection of one specific skill for whatever time it takes to learn it. “They told me to keep going, not to stop until I got it.” She also knew what that meant having previously owned an employment agency business for 14 years and having had three children helped her persistence.