While Japan is shaken by earthquake-tsunami disaster-atomic, the example of an old Monaco explains the composure of the sons of the Rising Sun.
They wanted us a gift, the monks of Mount Hiei, and have hit the mark. After the morning prayer, we move away from the east of the temples (To-do) to get closer to the West (Sai-tō), perhaps the one less traveled by tourists, but in the more full of meaning for the monks of Mount Hiei . After a walk under umbrellas, surrounded by high forest, along a path and accompanied by antique lamps of stone, we reach the Temple of the Pure Land, Jodo in, surrounded by a beautiful garden of gravel combed spiral, the place where he was buried founder of Tendai Buddhism, nell'822. Saicho Dengyo Daishi wanted to leave this land, among the holy saints. The Monaco who now lives here, is called Jishin, and must comply strictly with all the hard ascetic precepts taken by the founder. It is no coincidence that this is where they face 12 years of isolation practice their penance. When you step on the spot, a melody comes to our ears tantric through the cracks of a wooden temple: is the voice of the monks who can not be seen, the boldest. The Monaco
who live here, and that makes us by Cicero in his brief visit, I am closer to a sort of wooden barrel. The uncover. Inside, on a bed of uniform sand, a path is traced partly burned, some still amber. It is incense. "I turn on every morning at three, and must remain on until three in the next day, ie 24 hours at a time. It is also a challenge to show what life is all about the spiritual. "
Returning to the parking lot, I find other temples hidden in the woods. In particular, I see it a couple the same, They are joined by a covered walkway, I explain, the Nina-Sun, classrooms for practical exercises on the Lotus Sutra and Pure Land, which are also taught jointly. And here's the Tsubaki-Sun, small, old, pretty and perfect size. And further up the vast Shaka-Do. Let us finally
before a large statue of SAIC, that our smiling guide will take us to see. Before that, here is a large white circular tank in which, on March 16, the day of prayer for peace, are burned all the prayers written on scraps of paper that people deposits rose during the year around the temples of Mount Hiei .
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