What to do to celebrate the day that marks the Buddha’s enlightenment, or “the Buddha’s Big E,” as Wild Fox Zen’s Dosho Port has it? Here’s what Dosho writes before he offers us a ceremony for our home practice:
In our tradition, we commemorate the Buddha’s Enlightenment Day on December 8th. Zen lore has it that after sitting under the bodhi tree for seven days, the Buddha looked up, saw the morning star and roared his lion’s roar, “I together with the great earth and all living beings, attain the Way.”
You can take part in the do-it-yourself ceremony here.
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