Dear friend,

 

Welcome to this site. I hope that you will find freshness here. The 108 Bowls: A Water Mala is about "giving attention to water."  Each water mala is a group of 108 people who place a small ceramic bowl in their windowsill and keep it topped up with water. Each of the bowls has been made by a distinguished artist, exhibited and dedicated as a group of 108, and then presented to the individual as a gift. 

 

Water is a shared reality of the human experience: our existence depends upon it; we are made of it; its crisis is our own; its beauty heals the heart as perhaps no other natural element can. Water is the language of the time for navigating resource sharing, sustainability, fairness, interspecies justice, and the creation of the conditions for true community.

 

What is "water," is a question that begins to reflect back on the very nature of the self and the other: it washes out the hard lines in a sense that we might draw with ideologies, and brings us back to what is real and direct. Thirst is no longer a metaphor. Tears of grief need release.

 

With this practice of water also comes a sense of renewal, also critical to our time. The current state of water, both literally and poetically, is both crisis and the perfection. I invite all of us to to begin a practice of "attention to water" as a way of being fundamentally soothed, joined in the human community, and enabled in our real work. 

 

In gassho,

 

Myotai Sensei