🌸 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 ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-san: Golden Week Pt 4, Wisdom
To simply accept the wisdom you’re cultivating is… wisdom!
I love it when a plan comes together! I do. Yes, there is suffering, but the noise and excitement of … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-san: Golden Week Pt 3, The Farmhouse
Tea time at an ohenro farmhouse.
Kochi Prefecture
I am walking on the ohenro and thinking about the upcoming holiday. Excitement is in and on the air. Television … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-San: Port to Enlightenment
Goddess of Mercy overlooks Urado Bay from Temple 32.
You remind me
Peonies were my mother’s favorite flowers. Our yard was full … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-San: Golden Week Pt 2
Buddha’s footprint represents the path to enlightenment, the teachings of the Dharma, and the universality of Buddhism.
A Little Homework
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olden week holidays are rapidly approaching. Well, the … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-San: Temple of The Great Sun
Little probability of getting lost on the way to temple 28 with this marker.
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he probability of a coin coming up heads is one out of every two tries. When … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-san: Life Changes
Throwback: Answers
H
ere I am, over 30 years ago cruising along on a boat on a Dutch canal. I was beginning a new chapter in my life seeking … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞