General News: Peace Walkers to Pass through Cornwall
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| Jun Yasuda will lead the peace walkers. |
September 10, 2009
A group of Buddhist peace activists will be walking through Cornwall-on-Hudson on Sunday, part of a 12-day walk to Grafton, N.Y. that begins on September 11th with a vigil at Ground Zero in lower Manhattan.
The walk, which will leave Highland Falls around 8 a.m. and continue along Route 218 past West Point, is led by a veteran peace walker, a Japanese Buddhist named Jun Yasuda.www.dharmawalk.org/junsan1.htm
Jun is a member of the Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist order whose only mission is to walk and pray for peace. She has walked across the United States eight times, she said in a phone interview, beginning with a walk with Native Americans from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. in 1978.
“Walking is part of our prayer,” she explained, “to bring a consciousness for peace to our area, to open people’s hearts.” As she walks she beats a small drum and chants for peace.
This 180-mile walk will be much shorter than the 55-day walk for a nuclear-free future that Jun took part in across Europe earlier this year. When she is back home at the Grafton Peace Pagoda, she continues her prayers in daily 18-20 mile walks.
She said that anyone who would like to join with the walkers is welcomed. They plan to spend the night in Cornwall at the Friends Meeting House before heading off to Hudson on Monday.
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