Some clarifications on a few subjects ;-)

Micha Strauss
2 days ago
5 min read

Dear friends and Sanga

our prayerwheel website that we own has been on the internet from 2015 up to today and still going strong, making our way to all people "prayerwheel interested" all over the world.

one thing we encounter many times is this question:

"are the prayerwheels in the shop ready-made and can be shipped? no 10 to 12 weeks delivery?"

so the answer to that question is always YES.

the prayerwheels on the actual shop are ready made and can be shipped once ordered.

that is the reason we set up that shop's page ;-)

this page:

https://www.holylandprayerwheels.com/prayerwheel-shop

all other prayerwheels we have on our website need to be ordered first and only then made. that is why there is the 10 to 12 weeks delivery time so we can source the wood, the microfilm/nanofilm and all other materials. then the prayerwheel is made and shipped.

we are not sure how to make it clearer for all of you out there who are interested in our prayerwheels... if you have an idea we would love to hear from you!

after all, we are only here to serve the worldwide community and to offer H.E. Garchen Rinpoche's prayerwheel design to the world.

may we be successful in helping Rinpoche reach the goal of spreading as many prayerwheels in this world to spin for the benefit of all beings!

on a personal note

being born here back in the early 70's was something special and beautiful. as a young child of course i could not fathom or understand the complexity of being born a Jew or and Israeli even wile being born to a dad who has survived the Holocaust and the Nazis i could not fully understand.

no boy can.

that is why we are young at the beginning ;-)

now, being much older and not so much wiser i can see that being born here must have been pure Karma and nothing else. the fact that we are still here, still doing what we do must be a testimony to the fact that we are just "paying" our Karmic seeds we have planted over endless lifetimes....

there is no other explanation in my mind after 53 years of living as a human on earth in one of the craziest of all places, Israel.

the fact that i "knew" i was going to be a monk in this life at the age of 9 and declared it to my mom, the fact that i was introduced to Zen Buddhism at the age of 27 and later on at the age of 30 introduced to Vajrayana and the "click" i felt with that and then sent me on a quest to know more and meet every master who came to teach in Israel at that time is pure Karma... i have no explanation... really.

the fact that after seeing many masters teach, when H.E. Garchen Rinpoche came to Israel for the first time in 2008 we did not have the Karma to go and see him, and my late brother went and told us we must come, even if only for 5 minutes, to make this karmic connection to Rinpoche...

the fact that just seeing him once made us want to craft prayerwheels so badly we did all we could to make that happen...

the fact that we had to go through all we went through on our prayerwheel journey only strengthens that feeling and the resolve we had in the first day meeting Rinpoche...

the fact that after 3000 prayer wheels that were made by hand, one by one, we got the request from H.E. Garchen Rinpoche when we visited him last on July 1st 2025 to start and make "machine made" prayerwheels to offer the world for a more attractive price is a testimony that the Karma that "pushed" us forward to craft prayerwheels one by one by hand has been resolved and we now have the Karma to start a new path of machine made prayerwheels that are of the highest of quality and are made to the specifications of how prayerwheels should be made, if we only choose to do so...

this is now a new path for us to start and we are on it!

we got word a few days ago from the Garchen Buddhist Institute that our new machine made prayer wheels have passed H.E. Garchen Rinpoche's approval test and we are starting our way to have them available at the GBI physical shop (we sure hope so! but we still have not heard from them) and we are now starting to make our way to all of Rinpoche's centers worldwide to offer these amazing prayerwheels to be sold at their shops :-)

after all, our motto has been and will always be:

To craft as many prayerwheels as we can, While we still can.

we are hoping that our new machine made HEGR prayerwheels will start to sell more and more and we can continue to live our little lives helping Rinpoche's goal to help all beings to achieve supreme enlightenment with the help of holy prayerwheels.

we do not know what tomorrow will bring. we are just regular human folk... just continuing to do what we do in the face of all that is thrown at us here.

we are hoping that real lasting peace will start in the middle east and would last for thousands of years so when we have to die and be reborn here on earth, at least all these useless wars have ended and mankind has learned to share this world for the short time we get to visit it...

if you know of anyone who would be interested in buying our prayerwheels (only these machine made HEGR model) at a wholesale price in large quantities, send them our way!

we can finally do this!

after 18 and a half years of crafting prayerwheels....

this is an amazing point in time where we finally are at the point where we can offer these stunning prayerwheels to the world.

thank you Rinpoche! you have made our tiny little lives matter in a way that has so much impact... we are forever in your debt and are always here to do as you request of us!

so we can continue and live by our motto:

To craft as many prayerwheels as we can, While we still can.

we love you all so much :-)

thank you ALL for making our little lives matter...