Hi ya! Thanks for clicking by today. Hope you are in fine fettle. Pour yourself a mug of Oolong tea and snag a Chinese doughnut, why don't'cha? Speaking of Chinese, never mind leaving a carbon footprint... here's a pair of wooden ones!
HuaChi, a simple monk from China, has achieved something
that only few are able to – he has left a mark in this world, quite
literally. The pious man has knelt to pray in the exact same spot for
nearly 20 years now. He’s performed the ritual so many times that his
footprints are deeply ingrained in the wooden floor of his temple, in
the monastery town of Tongren, in Qinghai Province.
The highly disciplined monk follows a never-changing
routine – he arrives at the temple steps every day before sunrise,
places his feet on the footprints and prostrates a few thousand times in
prayer. Having done this for two decades, the wood beneath his feet has
softened considerably, transforming into perfect footprints that are
1.2 inches deep.
When Hua Chi was younger, he would prostrate 2,000 to 3,000
times a day. “But I have grown older, so in recent years I have only
done around 1,000 each day,” he said. Sometimes, during winter he can
only manage 500. But even that is seriously impressive; I couldn’t
imagine doing a handful of prostrations without exhausting myself. After
completing his prayers, he walks around the temple as well.
The only problem I have with the above picture is that if you kneel and prostrate in prayer, your feet would be facing backwards so it would be the top of your feet touching the floor, wouldn't it?
See ya, eh!
Bob
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