"Because you Taipei people take the MRT, go up and down the stairs, and then walk from the MRT station to the destination, unlike us who drive around or ride motorcycles to the door, there is no chance to walk at all." Think about it. People who are used to commuting by public transport in Tokyo or Paris seem slim. In recent years, in addition to walking to and from work, walking for health has become a trend, and even advanced to a leisure or spiritual level.
Indeed, walking can be a leisure of walking, roaming and wandering, and it can also be a pioneering work to survive from one place to another. It can also be a way from health preservation to spiritual meditation. Religious believers wake up the world by begging for bowls along the street and even knocking on the door on their knees.
Since ancient times, monks have had a practice called "static walking", which means walking constantly, consciously calming down through walking, and then observing the whole body. Since ancient times, Australian aborigines have walked through the vast land, weaving the road of dreams, and finding their place with the land under their feet by chanting and singing the songs of dreams.
Since my Belgian friend Bart showed his pilgrimage to St. James, Spain for dozens of days by computer, St. James has become my dream trip. Over the years, I wandered around Taiwan Province Province with my friends, roaming the trails in Taiwan Province Province, and some world-famous pilgrimage trails made us miss each other. In addition to St. James Road in northwest Spain to St. James Cathedral, there is also a journey of 1000 kilometers to 88 temples in four countries of Japan.
We really ran all over the road a few years ago, but because of time, we couldn't spare more than 50 days. We only went to the first few temples and the last few temples, which is a kind of end!
Traveling in the Four Kingdoms mainly follows the footsteps of heian period's master Kong Hai (also known as the master of Buddhism, a learned monk who went to Chang 'an, China to study in the Tang Dynasty). Eighty-eight temples around Shikoku Island are distributed in four counties, so they are divided into four Dojo. The first temple starts from Lingshan Temple and faces the Mingmen Strait, which is called the initiation Dojo. Kochi Prefecture is called the Dojo of practice; Ehime Prefecture is the Dojo of Bodhisattva; The last few temples are all in Xiangchuan County, which is called Nirvana Dojo. Lingshan Temple, the starting station, sells hats, white clothes, white schoolbags and crutches for pilgrimage. /kloc-On the path of more than 0/000 kilometers, people wearing full clothes are everywhere at any time.