108 Bells Ceremony
with Ekai Joel Kreisberg &
the Shining Bright Lotus Leadership
December 28th, 2024
9 am ET - 12:30 pm ET (New York)
Online Community Celebration
Release 2024 and Set Your Intentions for 2025!
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: greed, anger and delusion.
This event will include the morning service, Qi Gong, 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
9:00 am Opening Check-In
9:15 am Morning Service
9:35 am Opening Meditation
10:05 am Short break
10:10 am Letting Go Exercise
10:25 am 108 Bells Meditation
10:55 am Short Break
11:00 am Qigong
11:20 am Bringing In Exercise
11:35 am Closing Meditation
12:05 am Closing Check-In
12:20 am Closing Verse
Clear intentions, acting wising, compassionately are this practice.
Jun Po Roshi