The Alchemy of Bowing

June 01, 2021

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June 1, 2021

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Bowing helps to eliminate our self-centered ideas.

- Shunryu Suzuki -

The Alchemy of Bowing

"Since the third century CE to this day, bowing to the Buddha is the most common practice for Asian Buddhists. However, among Westerners, bowing practice, as compared with meditation, is not as well-known. Last summer, I had an opportunity to speak with Reverend Heng Sure, the director of the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery, and asked for more information about Buddhist bowing and repentance. In the late 1970s, Reverend Sure and a fellow monk did a three-year bowing pilgrimage for world peace along the coast of California. Their journey began in Pasadena and ended three years and 800 miles later at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in Ukiah. And most astonishingly, their knees had already endured over a million bows..." Rev. Heng Sure shares more on the alchemy of bowing in this interview. { read more }