Past
PEACE
Pilgrimages
2026
Kaihogyo
The Start Of A Seven Year Pilgrimage
March to July 2026
2023
Lancaster to London
2021
Lancashire Monastic Way
(April 2021)
I often get asked “Why do you walk in your robes?”
Today I was walking in Cumbria, by the sea, all day.
A man pulled up next to me in his truck, he was wearing dark sunglasses but behind them I could see the glistening of a tearful face. He pointed out into the ocean and said “My daughter is in there” (his daughter had died and her ashes were spread into the water a few years ago).
He said “Your robes, the words ‘Peace Pilgrim’ on your back, everything brought me back to now and to the memory of my daughter, I can’t thank you enough.”
He offered a packet of small cakes and I ate two a little later on in memory of him and of his daughter as I looked out to sea.
This beautiful moment is why I walk in my robes….they provide this wonderful safe space for people to connect with what is important to them. Time after time I get stopped in this way, I am so grateful every time, grateful for the teaching they give me.,
2021
Lancaster to Glasgow
(November 2021)
My life vow is to help humanity find peace with the earth.
I continue the walk of a Peace Pilgrim, to COP26…..Walking from Lancaster to Glasgow. From England to Scotland.
“My vow for this pilgrimage is to radiate pure love, compassion and deep joy to all of the world political leaders and heads of state who are meeting at the United Nations Climate Conference on the 1st November. My role, as with many others who are on pilgrimage from all quarters of the country to COP26, is to hold a space for love and to hold a space for good work to be done. The leaders at this conference have the future of humanity in their hands, it is that big a deal. I hope that you can join me in the next few weeks in sending them love, they are going to need all of the help that we can offer.
On my journey I will be practicing Metta (radiating unlimited love). Every step is a prayer for peace, every step is an act of love for humanity.”
May this world be free from pain, fear and suffering.
2020
Milton Keynes to London
“The planned Camino pilgrimage walk had to be postponed this year, because of Covid, so instead the Peace Pilgrims are walking from the Milton Keynes Peace Pagoda to Battersea Peace Pagoda over 4 days, in meditation, each step a prayer for peace on earth. Thank you beautiful people for this offering for humanity at such a challenging time in our collective lives. Our prayers for peace are with you. 
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2019
Fleetwood to Lytham
(April 2019)
“Last year I walked in my Buddhist robes, on pilgrimage from Lancaster to London, meeting people along the way to talk about the effect that walking can have on our mental health. We all spend so much of our time searching for something different and yet our life is right here, one foot in front of the other. Pilgrimage is learning how to find this and anchoring it into our life.
In this country we see so many signs of loneliness, anxiety and depression, one way that I like to show people that it doesn’t have to be this way is through walking….a pilgrimage to find ourselves.
This Easter I am trying to promote this idea that a reflective walk with the intention of personal peace has so many benefits for mental and physical health.
On Saturday 20th April I will be starting a short walk from Fleetwood to Lytham along the coast. I will be setting off from the Mount Pavilion in Fleetwood at 8.30am and walking all the way down Blackpool promenade. I invite anyone to join me along the way, you can’t miss me, I’ll be wearing my black Zen robes and carrying a long black walking staff.
We never know who we meet on pilgrimage, we never know what we find out about ourselves but one thing is true…..
Pilgrimage is fun.”
2019
London to Paris
(Westminster Abbey to Notre Dame)
“The start of the pilgrimage from Westminster Abbey in London to Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
Yesterday I arrived at the Abbey and was greeted by Canon Anthony Ball who gave me a very unexpected personal tour. We ended at a place where the public are not allowed; the burial site of the founder of the Abbey (King Edward III, and of Edward I). We both sat and offered our joint prayers for the pilgrimage and I also offered some bows.
As I walk from the Abbey my whole body will be the prayer of peace, every step allows that prayer to enter the earth.
I will be taking the soul of the whole of England with me to stand together with the soul of France at Notre Dame in Paris. This is a healing walk, a walk of reconciliation and friendship, a walk of love and of peace.
Please stand with me in offering your own prayer of peace to enter this great earth that we are all a part of.
Bringing together these two great centres of spiritual gathering, of national heritage, this is a Great Walk for Peace and Reconciliation with the two nations of England and France. A Buddhist monk walking with love for the Christian traditions of Anglicanism and Catholicism.
2018
Lancaster to London
(Nov 2018)
“A GREAT WALK FOR PEACE
Rev Jitei White a Zen Buddhist monk from Lancaster is walking from Lancaster to London setting off tomorrow morning at 9am from the Tara Centre (back door of the Storey Building).
I am walking in pilgrimage to get to the Cenotaph in London for the Remembrance Day Service on 11th November.”
2017
Lancaster to London
(Nov 2017)
World Peace Day is on 21st of September every year.
Just before this day, this year, I had a dream.
It was a very vivid dream that took me dressed in my priestly robes on a walk along the length of the country. I was expounding the message of peace wherever I went; peace of the individual, peace in community and peace as a whole world unity.
The walk was to take me from my home city of Lancaster to our capital city of London, a journey of about 300 miles. My aim was to arrive at the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London for the Remembrance Day Service on Sunday 12th November 2017.