Some news for y'all!

We have been crafting prayerwheels for y'all for many years now, always doing all we can do to follow the correct guide lines of H.E. Garchen Rinpoche, our beloved teacher.

Rinpoche's last request to us was to make the HEGR (H.E. Garchen Rinpoche's prayerwheel design) as affordable as can be so as many students and people can afford it and spin it, that is what is important!

To do just that, we made some changes to the way we craft, buy our materials, and how we price our time and craft for this one specific prayerwheel design so to make it as affordable for as many of you out there to be able to hold it and spin it for the benefit of all beings!

From now on, on our prayerwheel shop online you will only find this HEGR prayerwheel with no options of mantra on drum, no option of customizing this design, nothing. It is exactly as Rinpoche loves his prayerwheels.

rubber wrist bands to be put on the prayerwheel drum if you choose to do so as Rinpoche loves

Rinpoche also loves to have his rubber mantra bands on the drum of the prayerwheels so we will make the effort and have these bands sent to us from the GBI shop (if they agree to of course) after Rinpoche has blessed them, and we will add them to the prayerwheel shipping box so you can add them to your prayerwheel once received. We thought that since we are offering this prayerwheel to you, the customer / student / practitioner who wishes to follow Rinpoche's advice, we will supply you with the bands but not put them on your prayerwheel.

This act you will do on your own when the received prayerwheel arrives

Because we do not want to do that act of putting them on ourselves, this is an act of saying:

"Yes, I will follow you Rinpoche and do the best of my ability to be the best person I can become with you as my guide for the benefit of all beings."

H.E. Garchen Rinpoche blessing the prayerwheels

This prayerwheel design will be sold in all 4 different hardwood types we have here to craft from, from time to time we will find a special piece of hardwood to craft from and then offer this HEGR prayerwheel design on the shop to anyone who wishes to own and spin it.

The usual and regular hardwoods we have to craft from are Maple, Cherry, Walnut and African Walnut.

Here are the different hardwood we craft our HEGR prayerwheel from, you can see them and make a better choice for yourself as to what prayerwheel would be the best for you!

HEGR prayerwheel design made from Cherry hardwood

HEGR prayerwheel design made from Walnut hardwood

HEGR prayerwheel design made from African Walnut hardwood

HEGR prayerwheel design made from Maple hardwood

As a way to further follow Rinpoche's advice even further we will gift this design a matching stand on our dime.

Hopefully, this will help many more customers who wish to own a prayerwheel made with much love and from the best materials we could find, billions and millions of mantras inside, all made to last a lifetime of spinning, all of this for a better price.

If we lived in a lower income country and things would cost us less, our prayerwheels would also cost less… But we are still here, in Israel, living in the worst of all times this place has ever seen (at least in my short lifetime) and we find ourselves with this new motto now:

"As long as we are here, living here in this place, we shall not complain about its past nor will we complain about the present state since it is our choice to be here and live here now.

The best thing we can do if we are still living here for now?

Doing the absolute best of what can be done for the benefit of all beings, craft holy objects on this land, in this space, offer all of our collected accumulated karma, merit and good fortune to ALL who are now suffering, pray for the benefit of all and keep on doing what we know how to do best, craft prayerwheels and ship them all over the world to spin for the benefit of all beings. Nothing more to do."

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So, we have changed the Shop's page and will now only offer the HEGR design with no options. It is as it is.

If you wish to have something custom made, no problem! We can do that for you! But if we want to follow Rinpoche's advice, We must offer it as low priced as we can, that means as little as possible done on it.

We love Rinpoche so much! We will always do as he tells us to do.

Sadly, we can not offer these prayerwheels at the actual GBI shop for now, but they are available here at our prayerwheel shop. If things change, and we can ship again to the GBI physical shop, we will let you all know because some of you have written to us asking: "Should I buy it from you? Or buy it at the GBI shop when I get there?"

As of now, these HEGR prayerwheels made by us following Rinpoche's design and advice can only be purchased on our online shop and will only be sold as they are made. If there are none on the shop to buy now, and you still wish to have one made for you? You can then order it, and we will craft it for you and ship it to you, as we do with all prayerwheel designs and models we offer.

One more (actually a few) huge project is in the making so you will hear about it soon and be able to take part if you choose to do so!

Stay tuned for more prayerwheel news!

Micha (and Ayelet of course)

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