🌸 Noire Henro-San: Links in a Chain
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 … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
Category: Japan: Henro Mind
🌸 Noire Henro-San: You Shall Pass Temple 60
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 … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-san: Moving With Grace
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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 … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-san: Route of Worship
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 … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-san: Return to the Path
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 … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-san: Woman Warrior
Ōhōri Tsuruhime
Samurai Shrine
Oyamamuchi no Okami, brother of the sun goddess Amaterasu, is god of the mountains, seas, and combat. He is enshrined at Oyamamuchi. Since then, … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-san: Island Hideaway
A beautiful view of the sunset over the ocean and Omishima island from the guesthouse.
The Guesthouse
One’s Destination Is Never A Place, But A New Way Of Seeing … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-san: Oyamazumi Shrine – Omishima
Tatara Bridge (Tatara Ohashi) to Omishima island on the Nishiseto Expressway (Shimanami Kaidō).
Believe your own magic
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f you got on the wrong train without the ability to disembark and … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-san: Imabari
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 … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-San: Matsuyama
Matsuyama City Station is an important hub connecting cities and towns on Shikoku island and beyond.
To be human
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he world is not humane just because it is … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 Noire Henro-san: Know Your Mind
S
āriputra, all things have the characteristic of emptiness,
no arising, no ceasing; no purity, no impurity; no deficiency, no completeness.
– from the Heart Sutra
The Buddha’s teachings … 🐞 Read more about it ➞ ➞ ➞
🌸 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 ➞ ➞ ➞