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Inside The Healing Pillar In Nara
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Squeezing into the hole at the bottom of the massive ‘healing’ pillar in the Daibutsuden of the Todaiji Temple, is said to guarantee your place in Heaven.
I didn’t dare risk being stuck in limbo!
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Oh Madhu…these made my day. Thank you so much !!!
Delighted they did Jo! Thank YOU 🙂
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There are a hundred thousand ways to heaven, each with eight doors. Ahem, this is one of them.
It seems it is!!! 🙂
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Just like looking up a chimney! The Bible has a different view of getting to heaven. The New Testament (Christian part) explains how to get to heaven:
NIV Bible – John 3 v 16-17
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
Dear Jane, this was posted in jest and depicts a tradition that is more superstition and removed from actual Buddhist belief.
I resist talking about religion on this blog, but since you bring it up, I personally prefer the Buddhist versions of Nirvana – and this is one of the largest Buddhist temples in Japan – where one achieves salvation by one’s own meritorious thought and action, and where Heaven and Hell are as temporary as life, and your behavior and compassion towards others, decides the course of your afterlife. What a wonderful world this would be if everyone worked to better themselves rather than trying to prove that one God is better than the other.
kamah is the key to heaven you are right.
Absolutely Shakil. And I have no doubt all religions promote ‘karma’ in some form or the other. It is the interpretation by humans that is sometimes misleading. Many thanks for stopping by.
Interesting! There are so many similar structures in Indian temples, too, right? Pillars that you should squeeze behind to get a place in heaven, stepping stones that you should cross, etc etc?
I am sure, and I have followed through with several for fun, as long as there was no risk to life or limb…..or dignity 😀
By the looks of it… The guarantee of a place in heaven seems to be only for the slim and flexible (and non claustrophobic) 🙂
Woman, you have some fantastic legs …. *smile – I wouldn’t risk them if they were mine neither. Great and fun entry – and I’m sure you will come to heaven in any case.
Ahihihi… and your model looks hot. 😀
ha ha ha 🙂
Ah, what shot, Madhu! 🙂 I do envy her her slim endless legs though.
Interesting! Now I just need to find a hollow trunk…
Ummm…you might need to call customer service Jade. I don’t think any hollow trunk will wok 🙂
Ha ha..great to know that there is prior booking for Heaven!!!
I loved Nara… 🙂
😆 I think I would not be able to resist 😀 Fabulous shots, Madhu 😀