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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: household matter, suddenly uttered a great cry of pain, and then became
very white and still. After a few moments she said, in a feeble voice:
"Pardon me for thus rudely crying out -- but the paid was so sudden!... My
dear husband, our union must have been brought about through some
Karma-relation in a former state of existence; and that happy relation, I
think, will bring us again together in more than one life to come. But for
this present existence of ours, the relation is now ended;-- we are about
to be separated. Repeat for me, I beseech you, the Nembutsu-prayer,--
because I am dying."
"Oh! what strange wild fancies!" cried the startled husband,-- "you are
only a little unwell, my dear one!... lie down for a while, and rest; and
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