| Our prostrations immediately inspire all beings to begin doing the same practice. |
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| The Purification of Pride First of all, we should know why we do prostrations. |
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| The man scratched his head in wonder and the next day began to do prostrations. |
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| The Significance of Devotion Our devotion will grow the more prostrations we do. |
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| They include prostrations, making offerings to statues of Buddhas or bodhisattvas, attending public teachings and ceremonies. |
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| We should not think that prostrations consist only of an activity of our body. |
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| We can consider these four foundations in the context of the stages of formless prostrations, which I will now describe. |
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| He is as still as a worshipper waiting for the imam to resume his prostrations. |
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| As we proclaim this meaningful mantra, making three prostrations, it is said that they are multiplied a million times. |
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| The Chief Astrologer rose creakily to his aged feet, made his ritual prostrations, and left the presence of his Spiritual Chief. |
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| Leading the prostrations became a joy, rather than an ordeal. |
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| They will note the Tibetans arriving on pilgrimage, making prostrations before shrines, lighting incense and visiting the temples. |
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| We should not think that we are the only person doing prostrations. |
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| All these new problems, prostrations themselves included, easily cause new fears for all, and so on, indefinitely. |
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| The word swaha can be translated as glory, homage or salutations, but is used mostly when doing prostrations, offering sacrifices. |
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| The British emissary finally performed three genuflections, without the prostrations required of tributary emissaries. |
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| So it was that the young man sat in the lotus position and gave prostrations in thanks for the welcome so sincerely given. |
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| Prayer is performed by bows and prostrations, with no chairs or seats of any kind. |
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| The grounds around the main temple and the Bodhi tree where Buddha sat are filled with Maroon-robed Tibetan monks practicing prostrations and rice offerings. |
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| In both Cooch Behar and Jaipur, arriving becomingly wind-blown at the wheel of her Buick or her Ferrari, she would be greeted with flowers and incense and with deep prostrations in the dust. |
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| It cross references the deeper meanings and spiritual significances of acts of worship with the physical manifestations of each act and prostrations. |
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| The old Astrologer made his prostrations to the God King of Tibet. |
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| For this we concentrate totally on our sitting position when we sit, our walking when we walk, on the prostrations when we do sanpai, on our breathing with each gesture. |
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| Prostrations help us realize that there is something more meaningful than ourselves. |
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