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The story goes that a young Buddhist monk left his home and family to practice the rigors of meditation and the privations of faith up in the mountains. One day, a visitor asked the hermit how his quest for enlightenment was coming along. The meditation and fasting were all going well, he said. But he suffered from one chronic ache: loneliness.