All new wind powered World Peace Prayerwheels are here!
- Micha Strauss
- Jan 22
- 4 min read
Updated: Jan 30
Dear friends and Sanga,
This here is the latest creation we have come up with! It is a collaboration with a prayerwheel maker in China who makes amazing Aluminum prayerwheels in all shapes and sizes. His wind powered wheels are nothing but a small miracle! We have been asked so many times to come up with a wind powered prayerwheel but we work with wood and wood does not handle the outside very well… So we never made one…
Now, the karma has ripened
And this opportunity has presented itself.
The long story is one of many twists and turns. We had a dream to build a large (actually HUGE) world peace prayerwheel in Israel in a time of war (as you all know, this land is in a "forever fight" state) and we worked very diligently over the course of the past 2 years (since Oct 7th) to make this happen. It eventually seemed that making this prayerwheel would spark another fight and that was not what we aimed for, we are aiming for world peace, as well as peace here on this tiny and loud land of Israel.
A long long time ago, when we first started our prayerwheel journey sometime in 2008 we had a chance to have a privet meeting with Tsoknyi Rinpoche and we told him that we want to cover this land with prayerwheels and Stupas! and Rinpoche looked at us and said: "No."
You need blessings here
"Here, there are too many religions already. If you push in one more view this might explode. There is no room here for one more view. What you need is blessings. Maybe over time there will be room for the Buddha view. Now you need blessings, many many blessings"
After hearing Rinpoche say all this we understood and bowed our heads in acceptance. This was back in 2008 and we are now in 2026 and things have never been so bad here…
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This is the time to take action, but in Tsoknyi Rinpoche's view.
Not by pushing anything that would make the minds of people here get the wrong idea and plant seeds of wrong view in their mind streams…
All of a sudden, while traveling the USA back in June of 2025 I had a realization while sitting on the street outside a very tasty fancy restaurant that we were invited to for dinner by two beautiful and so kind brothers we met many years ago in a Vajrakilaya Drubchen at the Garchen Buddhist Institute and have not seen them since then.
One brother said something about being hidden away, standing where no one sees you, not in the front lines… and from there and from the silence of not been seen, you give tiny nudges and by doing that you change the direction of things… as a wise man once said, big things have small beginnings.
Yogi Bob was right!
That turned on a light in my head and I realized Yogi Bob is right! That is what we need to do.
We need small, unmarked wind powered prayerwheels and fill them with mantras and prayers as we do in all our world peace prayerwheels and cover this land with them, and later the entire world! What a flash of lightning has gone off in my head on that street floor while people with dogs and bicycles pass us, looking at us and probably thinking to themselves, who are this guys sitting on the ground?! Hahahahaha...
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Finally they are here
After our return back home we started to work on this project and yesterday, after a long time of figuring things out, 10 of these prayerwheels have arrived at our studio. These prayerwheels are absolutely amazing! They are made so perfectly, spin like a dream and will do so for many many years to come! No markings (on our request so people do not associate them with Buddhism) but made to last.
We had a dream to fill them with both the Mani mantra on nano film and the all-new Vajra Guru mantra on nano film but this mantra has not yet been perfected on nano film and we want to start so we will make two options you can choose from:
1. 100 billion Mani mantras + all prayers we have collected
2. 50 billion Mani mantras + 6 million Green Tara mantras + 9K 4 Dharmakaya Relics mantras + all prayers we have collected.
These are the two options we can now offer, one in silver and one in gold color for y'all to choose from. We are SO excited!!!
Since nano film is more expensive than microfilm, the 100 Billion Mani mantra wheel costs more. just a heads up.
Our next step is to start a world-wide fundraiser, that will not have an end-date. Instead it will go on and collect more and more funds and with that we are happily going to make more and more of these incredible beneficial and powerful prayerwheels, to spread all over this world. This would give the chance for people that have collected a lot of money in their lives to earn massive amount of merit by donating to this project, or any one who wishes to accumulate merit by donating any amount... big or small, makes no difference :-)
Something to think about:
Since this fundraiser will go on without an end, it offers an opportunity for people to donate funds regulary and also on very holy days in the Buddhist calendar - and earn even more merit. Which can then be dedicated well! Wow what an opportunity! This is a thought that sends shivers down my spine… holy moly… ❤️
When this comes to fruition we will set up a whole new website that is solely dedicated only to World Peace Prayerwheels, be them hand held, tabletop or wind powered and on this website will be the link to the fundraiser.
We are SO excited!!!!! it is a dream come true!
Make the most of this day, your life, this world… all of it!
It ends so quickly… we take nothing...
We love you all so much!
Micha
(and Ayelet of course)
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