🌸 Noire Henro-san: Praying With My Feet – Pt 4
At a foot shrine in Tokushima, o waraji (giant rope sandals) hang on each side of the entryway.
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alk in a way that the footprint you leave is … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-San: The Answer
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e do things like walking, eating – most things these days – never paying attention. Not using our eyes. Not really seeing.
Is it the world we are … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-san: Elastic Mind
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ast year I mustered the strength to walk 1,400 kilometers on the Camino de Santiago in Spain. Such a long walk was a stretch for anyone. It was … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-san: Did You See the Cypress Tree?
A heart shaped topiary installation at a lookout in Ehime prefecture.
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acred: the power, being, or realm understood by religious persons to be at the core of existence … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-san: Open Our Eyes
Stone carving at Temple 42.
I discovered an ohenro friend at the hostel in Uwajima City last night. We recognized each other immediately. It’s like that sometimes. You meet … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-san: Year of the Dragon
A tanuki statue welcomes travelers to Temple 40.
On entering Ehime prefecture, an ohenro is used to the journey. She is able to see things as they are, which … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-San: The Pure Land
One of the Seven Wonders of Ashizuri: the Daishi Sea Turtle at Temple 38 near the Pure Land.
Finding a place to stay and avoiding despair dominated my thinking … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-san: Golden Week Pt 8, What the World Needs
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t needs a summer of love, of course. But you cannot give what you don’t have or maybe never had.
As time goes on, you’ll understand. What … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-San: Golden Week Pt 7, Bridge of Dreams
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alty air. The ocean. Sea birds, Shimmering water, blue skies, and dreams. Above me, Before me. All around me.
There’s an ancient saying in Japan, that life is … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-san: Golden Week Pt 6, The Middle Way
Asceticism –The Fasting or Emaciated Buddha**
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know that self-discipline and abstinence – asceticism – are parts of religious practice within many religious and spiritual traditions including Buddhism. … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-san: Sunday in Kochi City
Local heros: Three men of Kochi.
A Little Trip To Kochi City
On Sunday, that same Sunday I met a man and his mother, I continued on the … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-san: Golden Week Pt 5, A Man and His Mother
Kochi Prefecture
I had an experience today. It got me thinking. The words and thoughts, however, were not new. Let me show you some of them. Then I will … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞