Closed eyes.
A compassionate smile.
[ All things of the secular world are foolish and vain. Only beings untainted and sinless can escape the great wheel and finally find rest. ]
The Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, with its white head and black body of unknown composition, approached them speaking.
As if unable to cross the sacred rope, it wandered around the edges, gesturing for them to come out, and continuously changed the shape of its worm-like hands, defiling the meaning of sacred mudras.
[ All things in the world are committing sins. Ah, I see. I see the beings suffering from their karma. ]
The Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva formed a mudra with its worm-like hands.
It was a strange mudra with only the index fingers of both hands straight, as if pointing at something.
[ From the Eight Hot Hells to the Avici Hell. From the Five Uninterrupted Hells to the Imagination Hell. I see everything. Oh, countless beings suffering from their karma. Beings eaten by worms, cut to pieces by raining swords, and constantly pecked by birds with diamond beaks! Pitiful beings! ]
Unlike the incredibly calm white head, the voice was filled with anguish...
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