Some Chinese Ghosts by Lafcadio Hearn

Author:Lafcadio Hearn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 2018-05-04T17:28:26+00:00

Only a mockery of sleep! But the vow had been violated, the sacred purpose unfulfilled! Humiliated, penitent, but resolved, the as­cet­ic drew from his girdle a keen knife, and with unfaltering hands severed his eyelids from his eyes, and flung them from him. “O Thou Perfectly Awakened!” he prayed, “thy disciple hath not been overcome save through the feebleness of the body; and his vow hath been renewed. Here shall he linger, without food or drink, ­until the moment of its fulfilment.” And ­having assumed the hieratic posture,—seated himself with his lower limbs folded beneath him, and the palms of his hands upward, the right upon the left, the left resting upon the sole of his upturned foot,—he resumed his meditation.

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