The First Bow

Long Journey to a Bow | May 23, 2014

Learning to make that first bow to ourselves is perhaps a step to realizing that a bow is just a bow, a simple gesture where all ideas of ‘self’ and ‘other,’ ‘worthy’ and ‘unworthy,’ fall away. It is a step of confidently committing ourselves to realizing the same freedom and compassion that all buddhas throughout time have discovered; it is acknowledging that we practice to be liberated.

—Christina Feldman, “Long Journey to a Bow”