Bowing Week 2026

 

We again began the new year, at Shao Shan Temple, with "Bowing Week".  Every day the first week of programs beginning the day with 108 prostrations before our usual online morning program.  People joined either in-person at the Temple or online from their own homes. 

Each day's bowing session began with this chant:

The one who bows and the one who is bowed to are both, by nature, empty.

Therefore the communication between them is inexpressibly perfect.

Our practice is within the Net of Indra reflecting all Buddhas everywhere.

And my own person reflects in all Buddhas, to whom with my whole life I go for refuge. 

(from Plum Village, "Touching the Earth gatha")