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He sometimes wore Japanese clothes. So began a bleak life for four Catholics: the priest, two Japanese sisters to teach the babies, and a Japanese woman to cook. For a month, he was unable to move. Their meeting definitely marked the beginning of life getting a lot better for Miss Sasaki.
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If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.
Across a narrow corridor running the length of the building were an office and a much larger bedroom, which Father Takakura, true to his nature, reserved for guests.
When he first arrived, he felt enterprising, and, on the principle that souls are best caught while unripe, he had builders add two rooms to the chapel and started in them what he called the St.
Mary’s Kindergarten. A woman named Satsue Yoshiki, who was thirty-five years old, recently cured of tuberculosis, and recently baptized, had been told to report for an interview at the Mukaihara church. The book returns repeatedly to the masses of injured people walking the streets, trapped, or fallen/laying on the ground, unable to help themselves or seek help.
He said, “These are burned.” She stood beside him in the tiny eating room, her hands behind her gripping the doorjamb so tightly that in time its paint was all worn away. Sasaki was so overwhelmed by the suffering and injuries of the people in his immediate vicinity that he couldn't devote any energy/thought to what was actually going on beyond the walls of the hospital.
“I don’t take medicines, I eat them,” he said to Yoshiki-san. During it, he nearly fainted.
At Noborimachi, he began instructing the female members, a mother and two daughters, of a wealthy and cultured family named Naganishi. The doctors injected steroids in his painful joints and treated him for the chronic flulike symptoms, and once he reported he had found traces of blood in his underwear, which the doctors guessed came from new kidney stones.
In the village of Mukaihara, he tried to be as inconspicuous—as Japanese—as he could.
He read the Bible and timetables—the only two sorts of texts, he told Yoshiki-san, that never told lies. Father Berzikofer would come for a few days at a time, and they would talk and drink a great deal of gin, which Father Takakura had also come to love.
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ONE winter day at the beginning of 1976, Father Takakura slipped and fell on the steep icy path down to town.
— Osho
We must be willing to pay a price for freedom. Tanimoto found about twenty men and women on the sandspit. Yoshiki-san visited him, and he drew out from a book a copy of his chart, on which was written “A living corpse.” He said he wanted to go home with her, and she took him. The two men had known each other years before, but now, one living in his monk’s cell and the other in his grand apartment in the four-story clinic, they were light-years apart.
They seemed to be blood bruises, but his blood tests did not suggest leukemia.