“It takes 24 kilometers one way and 16 hours to walk back and forth on mountain
roads with a difference in elevation of more than 1,300 meters in one day.
It takes nine years to walk 48,000 kilometers.It is not because we have
experienced such austerity that we can attain enlightenment.
The important thing is to put into practice what we have learned from the
journey in our daily lives.While each of us fulfills our assigned role in the
given place, we can feel and realize many things. All life is training.” -Achara Ryojun Shionuma-
