Waking to Shape One’s Life

This article examines Daoist concepts of the relationship between the body and the mountain through the lens of ritual steps and pilgrimage, as observed in the famous Southern Marchmount (Nanyue). The lived relationship between the body and the mountain makes it possible for pilgrims to engage in a process of transformation. Several factors stand out: the immensity of the landscape, where the ritual practitioner or pilgrim progresses; the concentration and effort invested in the walk following the topography; the work of interior sincerity ( cheng ) necessary to engage with the gods in a formal audience; and the fluidification of thoughts. They all contribute to blur common social benchmarks and conventional cognitive processes. The moment of liminality offers the pilgrim the opportunity to reassemble certain representations of his or her existence through first stammering, then gradually uttering a clear and foundational statement about his life

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Chorus · Liminality · Literature · Pilgrim · Pilgrimage · Sincerity · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Psychology · Social Psychology

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