Cloud Gate Wanderer Project Showcase: Lin Chien-Ping Learns 'the Ordinary' from Thai Monks

Theater professional Lin Chien-Ping applied for the Cloud Gate Foundation's "Wanderer Project" and traveled alone to Thailand to live with practitioners. The monks' first words every morning, "Today is a normal day," became the most honest footnote of his journey. The Cloud Gate Foundation held a sharing session for the 18th edition of the "Wanderer Project" today, featuring seven awardees. Lin Chien-Ping, who was physically and mentally exhausted from years in theater, spent over 60 days at the Wat Pah Nanachat international forest monastery. He shared his daily routine of waking at 3:30 AM, walking barefoot for alms, and eating only one meal a day. Another participant, throat singer and morin khuur player Huang Yu-Cheng, traveled to the Altai Mountains in Mongolia. Deaf filmmaker Tsai Chia-Ling found her first sense of being "seen" in Bali at a sign language-themed restaurant. The "Wanderer Project," long supported by the Chi-Mei Foundation and its chairman Stan Shih, encourages Taiwanese youth to spend 60 days on a solo journey to reconnect with the world and themselves. The 20th edition of the project is now open for applications.