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loosen my joints aftersleeping and allow me to re-connect with my breath.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>After I&#8217;ve completed the <a href=\"http:\/\/yoga.about.com\/\">yoga<\/a>, I sit for<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=zazen&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;aq=t&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a\">zazen<\/a> on a zafu facing a part of the wall that is not covered by a bookshelf ora desk.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>Once my meditation is complete,I set an intention for the day, chant the three refuges then I put out thecandle, make a bow and step out of my little make shift <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zendo\">zendo<\/a> and into myday.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/file:\/\/\/C:\/DOCUME%7E1\/EVELYN%7E1\/LOCALS%7E1\/Temp\/moz-screenshot-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/><!--more-->I did not place much importance on regular ritual untilrecently.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>I&#8217;d 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I&#8217;d just pull out the cushion, find a wall and sit facingit with a timer of some sort nearby.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>I&#8217;dmake a bow before starting zazen and a bow before getting up but little more.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>Something changed for me when I went on the<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bodhi_Day\">Rohats<\/a>u retreat right after Thanksgiving.<span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>At the <st1:place w:st=\"on\"><st1:placename w:st=\"on\">Zen<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st=\"on\">Center<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place>, I was exposed tothe ritual of Buddhist practice in a deeper way than ever before.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>For that week, my life as a retreatant wasordered around the bells, drums, bows and chants of the center.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>When I got home, I wanted to keep a littlepart of that experience going and it has opened up an aspect of the practice tome that I previously had little experience 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As an outsider, I never really felt a deepconnection to the elaborate ceremony of the Catholic Church.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>I appreciated their ritualized mass andprayers but, by comparison, my own church had very little ritual.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>Sure, we had communion and a regular order toservice but our rituals had nowhere near the depth of complexity and intricacyof those that I saw during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mycatholictradition.com\/mass.html\">Catholic Mass<\/a>.<span style=\"\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Since becoming Buddhist, I have primarily practiced in smallgroup settings where much of the ritual has been reduced or abbreviated.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>It makes sense, when you only have a fewpeople, things naturally become simplified.<span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>When I went to the Zen Center for my weeklong retreat, I was able tocatch a small glimpse of what full Soto Zen service looks like.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>In some ways, I was reminded of the Catholicmasses I&#8217;d grown up attending but the purpose behind the rituals wasdifferent.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>In Zen, every ritual Ilearned about was meant as a practice of mindfulness.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>Each motion, each bow and each strike of adrum or gong helps to cultivate mindfulness of the present moment.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>The individual actions and motivations behindthe rituals are different but the result is much the same.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>Ritual helps us to gain a sense ofconnectedness to our practice &#8211; whether Buddhist or Christian &#8211; and to those whohave done the same ritual and practice for generations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Over the break, I began reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shambhala.org\/teachers\/pema\/\">Pema Chodron<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wisdom-Escape-Path-Loving-Kindness\/dp\/0877736324\">&#8220;The Wisdomof No Escape.&#8221;<\/a><span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>She talks about the powerof ritual in <i style=\"\">Chapter 14: Not PreferringSamsara or Nirvana<\/i>.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>She says,&#8221;ritual is about joining vision and practicality, heaven and earth, samsara andnirvana,&#8221; she goes on to write: &#8220;ritual, when it&#8217;s heartfelt, is like a timecapsule.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>It&#8217;s as if thousands of yearsago somebody had a clear, unobstructed view of magic, power, and sacredness,and realized that if he went out each morning and greeted the sun in a verystylized way, perhaps by doing a special chant and making offerings and perhapsby bowing, that it connected him to that richness.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>Therefore he taught his children to do that,and the children taught their children, and so on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A ritual can be just about any set of actions that helps bring that sense of connectedness to something greater; 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