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'Nippon-koku-chu- yaoyorozu-no-Kami-gami-sama! 'Ho ke-kyo! My uguisu is awake at last, and utters his morning prayer. You do not know what an uguisu is? An uguisu is a holy little bird that professes Buddhism. All uguisu have professed Buddhism from time immemorial; all uguisu preach alike to men the excellence of the divine Sutra. 'Ho ke-kyo!
But it is also written: 'He who shall joyfully accept but a single word from this Sutra, incalculably greater shall be his merit than the merit of one who should supply all beings in the four hundred thousand Asankhyeyas of worlds with all the necessaries for happiness. 'Ho ke-kyo!
He shall obtain twelve hundred good qualities of the Ear. He shall hear all sounds in the Triple Universe, sounds of gods, goblins, demons, and beings not human. 'Ho ke-kyo! A single word only.
In the Japanese tongue, Ho-ke-kyo; in Sanscrit, Saddharma Pundarika: 'The Sutra of the Lotus of the Good Law, the divine book of the Nichiren sect. Very brief, indeed, is my little feathered Buddhist's confession of faith only the sacred name reiterated over and over again like a litany, with liquid bursts of twittering between. 'Ho ke-kyo!
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