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Bodhichitta is what distinguishes Buddhism and Zen from world religions generally. The pilgrim looks directly into the fact of death, into the fact of impermanence, and finds there the solace that others find in the notion of heaven and eternal life. What is that solace? Ha-ha! How truly beautiful everything is!

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Each breath is inspiration and then expiration, life and death. Every day really is a good day.

--robert aitken