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If I was still attached to this world,
Your heart might be hard
Why must you reject me?
It's only a night in this illusory world.Eguchi's action was not to reject or to give the monk a
difficult time. It was only to preserve his reputation. Then, the
goddess Eguchi disappeared. The travelling monk could still hear
the echo of a woman's voice surfing on the waves of Yodo.
Looking up, Saigyo saw Fugen Bodhisattva on a white elephant
escorted by Deities disappear slowly in the bright clouds.
This is another legend of Kwan Yin Bodhisattva in China.
In the Tang Dynasty, Yuan He (806-820 A.D), there was a
beautiful girl in the community of Shan You. She was much
sought after for marriage by many men. She gave the candidates
a condition that they must memorize the Kwan Yin Lotus Sutra
within one afternoon. The next morning, twenty men were
successful doing this. She told them that she would marry the
one who can memorize the Vajracchedika Sutra overnight. For
this request, ten men were successful. That was still too many for
the marriage. She then gave her third condition that is to
memorize the seven books of the Lotus Sutra in just three days.
A man named Ma Lang was the only one successful and so she
promised to be his wife. Just as the wedding ceremony was
starting, she suddenly became ill, her beauty faded away and she
died right in front of the guests. A monk attending her funeral
saw her bones became pure gold. He told the guests that she was
not an ordinary person of this world. She had manifested herself