all new wind powered world peace prayerwheels are here!
- Micha Strauss
- 2 days ago
- 4 min read
Updated: 22 hours ago
Dear friends and Sanga,
This here is the latest creation we have come up with! It is a collaboration with a prayer wheel maker in China who makes amazing Aluminum prayer wheels 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 prayer wheel 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 prayer wheel 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 or at least, peace here on this tiny and loud land.
A long long time ago, when we first started our prayer wheel 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 prayer wheels and Stupas! and Rinpoche looked at us and said: "No."
"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 in the dark, standing where no one sees you, not in the front lines… and there, 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.
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 prayer wheels and fill them with mantras and prayers as we do in all our world peace prayer wheels and cover this land with them, and later on 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 weird people sitting on the ground?! Hahahahaha
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After our return back home we started to work on this project and yesterday, after a long time 10 of these prayer wheels have arrived at our studio. These prayer wheels 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 would go on forever and just collect more and more funds and make more and more of these prayer wheels 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 :-)
Since this fundraiser would go on forever, it will give a chance for people to donate funds (no matter the amount, big or small) on very holy days on the Buddhist calendar and earn so much more merit!!! 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 would be dedicated only to world peace prayer wheels, be them hand held, tabletop or wind powered and there on that website will be the link for 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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