Noire Henro-san Post Index – Japan

🇯🇵 My 88 Temple Pilgrimage In Japan – 2024

Shikoku Island

Kōbō Daishi walked a sacred pilgrimage, wishing for the peace and security of Japan in the middle of a chaotic period full of civil wars and devastating disasters. He sought a final resting spot for these teachings and himself. The place he found was Koyasan on Mt Koya.

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This page is a convenient and efficient reference for all of the blog posts related to my pilgrimage during the spring of 2024 on Shikoku island in Japan to trace the steps of Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi).

The past does not only draw us back to the past. There are certain memories of the past that have strong steel springs and, when we who live in the present touch them, they are suddenly stretched taut and then they propel us into the future.

– Yukio Mishima
(The Temple of the Golden Pavilion)

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How it began.

During the spring of 2024, I began a pilgrimage in Japan where I intend to walk 1200 kilometers or 720 miles on the Shikoku trail from Temple 1 Ryōzenji to Temple 88 Ōkuboji and beyond. Read my original announcement here.

How it came to be.

2024

February

March

  • 🌸NHs: Walk With The Teacher………. 03/31/2024

April

  • No posts

May

June

Tokushima Prefecture

July

August

Kochi Prefecture

September

October

  • NHs: Golden Week Pt 7, Bridge of Dreams………. 10/03/2024
  • NHs: Golden Week Pt 8, What the World Needs………. 10/07/2024
  • NHs: The Pure Land………. 10/11/2024

Ehime Prefecture

November


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Note:

If you are interested in reading more about my unfolding trek in Japan, this is the place to be for that.

All of those posts will be here. As I get further along, more will be added.

If you have questions or comments, leave them in the posts or videos.


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Temple Foot Map: My Day To Day Walking Guide For Temples 1 To 88

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2019-2020,  2021-2022,  2023, 2024

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The Great Heart of Perfection of Wisdom Sutra

Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, was deep through the Perfection of Wisdom, saw clearly that the five aggregates of human existence are empty, and so released himself from suffering.

“Sariputra! Form is nothing more than emptiness, emptiness is nothing more than Form. Form is exactly emptiness, and emptiness is exactly Form. The other four aggregates of human existence — feeling, thought, will, and consciousness — are also nothing more than emptiness.”

“Sariputra! All things are empty: Nothing is born, nothing dies, nothing is pure, nothing is stained, nothing increases and nothing decreases. So, in emptiness, there is no form, no feeling, no thought, no will, no consciousness. There are no eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind. There is no seeing, no hearing, no smelling, no tasting, no touching, no imagining. No plane of sight, no plane of thought. There is no ignorance, and no end to ignorance. There is no old age and death, and no end to old age and death. There is no suffering, no cause of suffering, no end to suffering, no path to suffering. There is no attainment of wisdom, and no wisdom to attain.”

The Bodhisattvas rely on the Perfection of Wisdom, their hearts without delusions; they have no reason for delusion, no fear within, abandoning their confused thoughts, finally experiencing Nirvana.

The Buddhas, past, present, and future, rely on the Perfection of Wisdom, and live in full enlightenment. The Perfection of Wisdom is the greatest mantra. It is the wisest mantra, the highest mantra, the mantra of the rest. Remove all suffering. This is truth that cannot be falsity. The reason of the Perfection of Wisdom Mantra, The Mantra is thus: Gaté, gaté, paragaté, parasamgaté. Bodhi! Svaha! [1]

Footnotes

  1.  Translation: Gone, Gone, gone beyond, Gone Completely Beyond. Praise to Awakening!

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