WOMANIST WISDOM IN THE WOOD SHOP
WOMANIST WISDOM IN THE WOOD SHOP
Typical guidance marker on the Shikoku 88 pilgrimage path, this time to Sankaku-ji, temple 65.
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f walking leads you to enlightenment, it is dojo. Dojo is where you practice and train, a place of the way, … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
As I got closer to temple 60, well-meaning people, Japanese ohenro friends and locals, took time to pass information to me. They repeated two things, a lot. One, it is a sekishodera or barrier temple. Thus, it is the … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
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eople, places, and things. Are they the treasures in life that we seek? All of that is here on this pilgrimage. They exist on all walks – spiritual and otherwise – where people are dedicated to a purpose. … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
The locations of the city temples in Imabari make it convenient to visit them all in one day… if you want. I visited the other temples in the last post. Let’s walk together on the pilgrimage path. We’ll visit … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
View of the Seto Inland Sea from my bus window from Omishima for my return to the city temples in Imabari.
Korogashi is a Japanese word meaning where the pilgrim or henro-san falls down. Of course, it is interpreted with … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
Ōhōri Tsuruhime
Oyamamuchi no Okami, brother of the sun goddess Amaterasu, is god of the mountains, seas, and combat. He is enshrined at Oyamamuchi. Since then, countless warriors and samurai came to pray for success in … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
A beautiful view of the sunset over the ocean and Omishima island from the guesthouse.
One’s Destination Is Never A Place, But A New Way Of Seeing Things…
Koinobori (fish banners) welcome all visitors to the guesthouse.… 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
Tatara Bridge (Tatara Ohashi) to Omishima island on the Nishiseto Expressway (Shimanami Kaidō).
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f you got on the wrong train without the ability to disembark and wind up in the mountains instead of at the seashore … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
The harbor city of Imabari is in Ehime prefecture on Shikoku. Six pilgrimage temples are located relatively close together here. I encountered twists and turns on this part of the pilgrimage. Some of those turns were unnerving.
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No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.
– Frederick Douglass
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National election day in the United States … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
Matsuyama City Station is an important hub connecting cities and towns on Shikoku island and beyond.
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he world is not humane just because it is made by human beings, and it does not become humane … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞