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Impermanence is a core concept of Buddhism, so we understand that our lives can end in the next moment. But it took me 78 years of life and roughly four decades of practicing Buddhism to realize that I'm already in the Pure Land. Come join me there.

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About Mel Pine

Eclectic Man, heterodox, last sighted inhabiting Western Loudoun County, Virginia, and chanting Om Amitabha Hrih.

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