Saint of Mt. Koya
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"I watched as he grew smaller in the distance, and just as he was completely hidden by the towering mountains into which he walked, the sky suddenly erupted with great roiling storm clouds which seemed to belch from the very peak toward which the old man was heading. Great peals of thunder rolled across the earth, drowning out even the sound of the waterfall beside which I was standing.

"Suddenly I seemed to come to my senses, and bowing in the direction the old man had taken as a sign of my gratitude for his advice, I tucked my staff under my arm, and tilting my hat against the force of the oncoming tempest, I set off down the road as fast as I could go. By the time I reached the village, the mountain ranges were lost behind a curtain of rain. It occurred to me that with so heavy a rain, the carp the old man was taking back for the woman would still be alive and twitching when he reached that isolated house deep in the mountains."


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