108 Bells Ceremony
with Ekai Joel Kreisberg, Jozen Jonathon Fielder &
the Shining Bright Lotus Leadership
December 16th, 2023
10 am ET - 1:30 pm ET (New York)
Online Community Celebration
Release 2023 and Set Your Intentions for 2024!
Join us online for this community gathering to bring in the New Year with the biggest Buddhist ceremony of the year: Joy no Kane, or the Tolling of the Temple Bells. In the Buddhist tradition, ringing the bell 108 times rids us of the 108 delusions that we suffer on earth. Through this ritual, we purify ourselves of the past year’s three poisons: ignorance, attachment, and aversion.
This event will include the morning service, qigong, and the 108 Bells ceremony of purification and release, opening up to a new year of awakening, and liberation.
This community program is offered without fee.
Dana contributions appreciated.
Schedule
10:00 am Opening Check-In
10:15 am Morning Service
10:35 am Opening Meditation
11:05 am Short break
11:10 am Letting Go Exercise
11:25 am 108 Bells Meditation
11:55 am Short Break
12:00 am Qigong
12:20 am Bringing In Exercise
12:35 am Closing Meditation
1:05 am Closing Check-In
1:20 am Closing Verse
Clear intentions, acting wising, compassionately are this practice.
Jun Po Roshi