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 your prayers, I entreat you, so that I may be soon able to escape from this horrible state of existence" . ..

No sooner had the hermit uttered this petition than he disappeared; and the hermitage also disappeared at the same instant. And Musō Kokushi found himself kneeling alone in the high grass, beside an ancient and moss-grown tomb, of the form called go-rin-ishi, which seemed to be the tomb of a priest.

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