dear friends and Sanga,
yesterday marked a very important day in our lives and occupation of crafting prayer wheels for the world's Sanga.
as you know, for a while now we have been dipping our fingers in the new and exciting world of Nano film!
this new tech to be placed inside prayer wheels is the next leap forward in prayer wheel tech. this new printing method allows billions of mantras to be printed in a very small space, rolled up and placed inside prayer wheels, making them so much more powerful!
till now, we have only made a few prayer wheels with this new tech, but in my humble opinion this will be the future of most prayer wheels made with honor respect and right motivation.
a little side note:
as we are prayer wheel makers living here in our small little community we have many friends travel to the far East. when they travel there, they encounter prayer wheels and what is the first thing that comes to mind?
Micha & Ayelet!
so we get very nice prayer wheel gifts from the East every time friends travel there.
and of course, as prayer wheel makers, what is the first thing to do after you said thank you for the lovely gift? open it and see what is inside!
and so, here is the list of things we have found rolled up inside of prayer wheels we got as gifts:
nothing
news paper with car adds
blobs of ink on paper
burned paper with mantra printed to make it look old
and finely, mantras printed on paper in the correct fashion.
back to our story:
when we acquired this new film of mantras for the first time, we encountered a new problem we did not face before with microfilm.
we do not have the equipment to read this film and see the direction of the printed mantra!
this is the one thing we need to make absolutely sure!
it is one of the MOST important if not THE most important action taken when crafting prayer wheels!
and now, we can't read it!
we had to make sure we are doing the mantra rolling correctly, so we talked with the company, talked to a fellow prayer wheel maker who uses nano film to make sure we are rolling in the right direction.
of course we got all the answers we needed, but there was a part in me that could not be pacified... couldn't be at peace...
i had to see this with my own eyes.
so, i began to look for a high powerful microscope to be able to read this new printed nano mantras!
being me, i have many friends in many crazy places, and one of them is working in the Technion! the Israeli institute of technology!
that place MUST have the right equipment!
so, i gave him a call, we talked and he assured me that my request is an easy one to solve!
there are plenty of these microscopes around!
he picked the best one and pointed me to the professor in charge of operating it.
we talked and scheduled a meeting.
that coveted meeting happened yesterday!
this cool dude, in one of the most amazing places i have ever stepped into had a very powerful microscope and with the most kind gentle attitude, showed me the print and......
it is in the right direction!!!!
just as the company claimed it would be!
ha!
so, now, much more reassured, we are embarking on a new level of prayer wheels we will introduce to the world in the coming weeks and months, prayer wheels with, lets say 20 Billion Mani mantras inside them... and more!
I have set up a new tab on the prayer wheel shop for these new prayer wheels, i think it is only fair to give them a shop of their own! as they are the future of prayer wheels!
so, to sum up.
it is very helpful to have friends in many special places.
it is important to be trusting but equally important, Seeing is believing!
and the future of prayer wheels is now here.
nano mantra film.
we are SO excited!!!!!
may this new tech release many many Mani mantras to spin for the benefit of ALL beings!
much love,
Micha & Ayelet
(here are some photos to tell the tale. the dirt you see on the film is by us. not the printing company. we took a piece of film that was exposed to the room hence, tiny dirt
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