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Born in the south of Vietnam, in a family where Tibetan Buddhism, a form of Mahayana, strongly prevailed in the form of religion, I named Zack Nadutra. Since my family was a firm believer in a dominant religion, they believed in old customs and traditions. My mother, out of all my family members, practiced all kinds of rituals, making sure others followed accordingly. I have always seen my mother imparting most of the religious knowledge to me and others. It was absurd to have liberal women be this superstitious, given she had two bachelor’s degrees, which earned her a reputable job. She worked as a Tax Inspector for the IRS, and her father, a former high-ranking colonel of the collapsed South Vietnam, was not considered superstitious at all in our family. 

By the time my mother reached her last months of pregnancy with me, she had shown no signs of giving birth. As her pregnancy progressed into the ten months, her worries slowly turned into fear. She thought she might lose me forever, and she couldn’t let that happen. During that time, Vietnam was facing a horrifying economic crisis, due to which the Medical Health care facility suffered enormously. There was minimal medical aid and doctors available on duty to help my mother deliver her baby quickly. Her father, in distress, started looking for solutions, and he was advised to follow a local traditional belief that could speed up the process. My mother was advised to ask for some rice from her neighbors to cook. It was a popular ritual back in the day, but unfortunately, it didn’t work. My mother felt no birth pangs after she cooked a pot of rice. 

Then her attention diverted towards another ritual involving asking for old clothes from a poor family, but sadly that didn’t work in her favor either. After waiting desperately for the arrival of her baby and trying out these rituals, my mother’s twelve months of pregnancy started. Extremely anguished and saddened, my mother was finally relieved from the burden by the Divinity, and I came in her lap on April 30, 1978. It was a quick birth, and I was a healthy baby boy. This is the only thing that mattered. Also, years later, I have a memory back about the time before birth. I went to reincarnation, which I will discuss later in this chapter. 

I have spent my entire childhood in a state of wonder and exploration. I had never run from an opportunity to learn new things. I can recall when I was about seven years old. I started to develop many intuitions about the impermanence and the fragility of life as well as the suffering of human life that just came out from nowhere but inside my mind. After moving to Bangkok, Thailand, and finishing high school, I wanted to pursue higher education. I was passionate about learning about multicultural understanding, religions, businesses, and other schools of thought being practiced worldwide. Another school. During my postgraduate study in Thailand, I got a chance to be ordained as a Buddhist monk following the Thai Hinayana tradition for a summer, enriching my spiritual interest even deeper into the future. 

I was honored to achieve a Gold Medal of Honor Recipient from the University honor award after I completed my four years of bachelor's in an international college and two years of master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA). I took a job as a university instructor for a Global Business program. Years later, I moved and worked for a corporation and took care of the exportation and distribution of the product in (Vietnam), which brought me back to Vietnam, and opened up my own import-export company in later years. Few years later, my mother and I started a trip to India and Nepal for the Buddha’s sacred places, which led to the activation of my spiritual realization journey. This comprised two parts of intense study, research, and wild meditation for days and nights over a year until I attained spiritual realization and enlightenment on my own. Once, I had a similar epiphany at the age of thirty-six years of age.