While Christianity teaches that man was expelled from the Garden of Eden, Zen teaches that we are living in paradise right now, even amid all the shit that's going down. This world is the Pure Land. This world is paradise. In fact, this world is better than paradise—but all we can do is piss and moan, and look around for something better.

Incidentally, the yard in front of the Granary, now a lovely piazza, was once a canal basin that had been filled in decades before.

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Food abundance does not appear to be a limiting factor as many ectoproct colonies are devoid of janolids.