One can only imagine what happens beneath the range of light that falls on the earth from the moon. The idea for waking at 3:30 to travel back to Grafton Peace Pagoda came to me from when I was here the day before, but that idea had its beginning thread from my August 31st post, Moonrise.
It all seemed interconnected, as I witnessed the white moonlight streaming down over the white dome creating this wonderful reflecting glow back into the night. The world beneath this moon had seen its fair share of hustle and bustle, but here in this tranquil setting, the moonlight was at peace.
There is quite a bit of information on the web about the Peace Pagoda, which are located throughout the world. I’ve read articles by it’s Japanese founder and later day disciples and all the activity that has been going on to establish more Pagodas. Interestingly, the only two in the US are located in Massachusetts, but there is a third in construction in my favorite woodlands, the smokey mountains of Tennessee, near ORNL where I once worked…..
One last comment, with 9/11, just a few days away, a peace march starts here and moves thru some of the larger cities in the area and then winds it’s way down to NYC. ‘Why do you have a peace walk?’, was a questioned posed to the venerable Nipponzan Myōhōji nun who efforts helped built this Pagoda, ‘because I have a leg’. This honorable woman Jun Yasuda has walked the entire US, three times, amazing……..
