[Buddha-l] Extreme practice

[Weng-Fai Wong]

There is a form of very strenuous mountain walking practice called Gyo done
by the Shingon sect in Japan. I even watched a documentary on it. It
featured this Shingon priest who has done it several times, each time
challenging death.

Some years back I met another Japanese priest and told him about this. He
knows the Shingon priest involved. But towards the end of the conversation,
he gave me a funny look and then said "this guy is one of the most pompous
and egotistical person I have ever met. What does that tell you of the
practice?" I wanted to probe further but he left it at that.

W.F. Wong