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Robert Macfarlane on Landscape and the Human Heart

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The Buddhist Method of Pilgrimage Is Not One of a Cent, It Is One of Circumnavigation

"We walked for several days and eventually I got so smelly I had to take a bath, it was a very cold bath," he says. "I think that is me looking down and realising that I have lowered myself into water of around one degree." The Buddhist method of pilgrimage is not one of a cent, it is one of circumnavigation,. It's the chora, the circumnambulation with prayer flags fluttering in the wind dispersing their prayers, hither and thither".

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