“If you see here,” explains the 24-year-old Shaolin Buddhist monk, dressed in a grayish-blue monastic robe, “this first cup of tea that I drink, I only have that cup of tea one time in my life, in that moment.”
Manhattan Beach’s Mira Costa High School ranks in the top 2 percent of some 21,000 public high schools nationwide for college readiness, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2013 Best High School rankings released last week.