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is a great, big, magnificent, all-embracing seduction of a word

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ZEN

is a great, big, magnificent, all-embracing seduction of a word. Zen is a beguiling and charming philanderer of the first order, that good looking stranger who lets us fall in love, and then runs off with someone else, so that we can fall out of love with the word and be let alone in our grief, to fall in love with reality.

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