Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Day 27: Ponferadda to Portella

Miles Day/Total/To Go: 21.1/394.4/120.3
Weather: Sunny & Mild
Great long walk today through some stunning country. I am in love with the Bierzo region of Spain, I even found a few bottles of Bierzo Mencia that I have in the home cellar. Did I mention that it was a stunning walk today.
From a spiritual perspective,  given the way my right foot has been feeling I focused on the concept of suffering.  The Buddhists believe that suffering is rooted in desire and to detach from all desire is the way to not suffer.  While I do agree with this to some extent given our grossly materialistic culture, I think that suffering is a fact of life. For example,  pain and physical and emotional suffering is part of the human condition and cannot simply be detached from. I think Christ came to earth and suffered and through this we have a God that gets it and provides a model for us. I am no theologian,  but this is something that intend to do a bit more focusing on and understand a bit better from a variety of perspectives,  post-camino.
Tomorrow, is the O' Cebrario peak which will be a physically challenging day on the Way.

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