Steve Kang: From Eight Hours of Chanting to the Voice That Said "I Love You" | TKIC #49

About this episode

Steve Kang was born into a Buddhist home in South Korea and moved to the United States at nine, and in his telling the faith was planted deep long before that — grandparents on both sides, an aunt who became a monk and left her family, a book of chants he read every morning as a kid. He describes spending entire weekends at the temples, even back in Korea during high school, trying to get a Buddhist statue to say something to him, to wink at him, to say hello Steve, and says never once did they ever talk to him. The monks gave him 36 rules; he says he broke them every day, that there was not one day he looked at those laws and said, I live the perfect life. Their remedy was more chanting —…