Posted by slang on August 22, 2007
BODHI PATTERN DZI BEAD
In Buddhist lore, Prince Siddhartha Gautama was enlightened after meditating under a Bodhi tree some 2548 years ago. He is now popularly known as the Buddha Shakyamuni or the Lord Buddha and recognized as the founder of Buddhism. Therefore, the Bodhi tree Dzi represents good virtues and eliminates life’s misfortunes.
Benefits:
- This Dzi bead helps to avoid dangers/misfortune, Growth in Compassion, Wisdom & Enlightenment, establishes good virtue
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Also called Felicity bead. Resembles a two headed insect.
Benefits:
- Is often considered to appear to appear to be the underside of the bat.
- Enhances longevity and health.
- Helps reveal early warning signs of illness getting started.
- Assists body in sloughing off attitudes that could lead to disease and illness.
- Helps to focus mind on healing, and healthy attitudes.
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NECTAR LONGEVITY BOTTLE PATTERN DZI BEAD
The longevity bottle looks like a nectar bottle with a heart inside of the bottle. The longevity bottle will appear as a heart within a heart topped by a cross.
Benefits of this Dzi bead:
1. Assists the owner by preventing disease and make the body healthier.
2. Can help the owner to increase their income as it is said to be able to attract luck. 3. believed that this Dzi bead has the power to eradicate sadness and suffering.
3. The longevity bottle Dzi bead is quite a well sought after dzi bead as it confers health and longevity.
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WAVE PATTERN DZI BEAD
The wave Dzi bead resembles the tiger’s teeth. However, the main contrast is that the wave beads are not as deep and more reminiscent of waves of water. The wave bead often has two waves separated by a straight line.
The wave Dzi bead assists with all forms of emotions such as:
- Releasing and understanding emotions that lessen one’s quality of life.
- Uncovers the emotional blockages around any given topic.
- Helps one understand and overcome emotional outbreaks, moodiness and some depression. · Assist one to sort out and understand emotions from the past, present and future. Repressed emotions sabotage and block many of the things humans want in their lives including abundance.
- The wave Dzi bead will assist in evolving emotions into feelings and assists one in understanding those feelings.
Besides the above, the wave Dzi is also seen as a Dzi bead of the wealth god:-
- It assists the owner in bringing in and obtaining fortunes.
- This Dzi is a symbol Of Wealth, as it brings A Constant Stream Of Wealth & Good Fortune, Gives One Energy & Confidence To Overcome All Obstacles, and Symbolizes Will Powers & Strength & Acts As A Protector.
- The wave Dzi works to heal the emotions the owner holds and has around wealth, thus freeing the owner to obtain the wealth they desire.
- Interestingly, if we takes the feng shui’s concept of water represent wealth, the wave dzi bead represents flowing water which is viewed as a limitless source of incoming wealth and assets, and therefore this wave dzi bead is especially auspicious.
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Difference between Tiger Tooth and Wave Dzi bead:-
When we take a superficial look at a tiger tooth dzi bead, it looks similar like the wave dzi bead. However on closer look, the waves in a tiger tooth dzibead will be deeper and more pointed or chiseled than the wave Dzi beads. Also, the tiger’s teeth can be combined with other patterns to intensify the designs or it is shaped like a tooth.
Benefits:
(a) Fearless, Resolute & Confidence:
- This tiger tooth dzi bead help to make one fearless, resolute, confident with strong mental strength.
- The tiger Dzi bead bestows strong will-power to the wearer to follow through/stick to it until finished attitude.
- Wearing the Tiger teeth Dzi assists the owner with better concentration, determination, and completion allowing the wearer to have a sense of determination to achieve the goals that he/she has set plus the ability to overcome any obstacles.
- Cleanse of negativity and other disturbances
(b) Protective and Removes Obstacles:
- It is strongly protective of the wearer and it assists in removing obstacles and helps to bestow health, luck and wealth. Cleanses negativity, evil and other disturbances.
© As A Sacred Object:
- The tiger teeth Dzi bead is revered as a spiritual object, capable of keeping away evil things and bodily protection.
- Pacify Demons,
- It is suitable for an individual who faces more obstacles and wants to draw strength in overcoming them.
(d) Symbol of Wealth/Success:-
- Symbol of Wealth, Brings a Constant Stream of Wealth & Good Fortune,
- Gives one Extra Energy & Confidence to Overcome All Obstacles to achieve success.
- Energizes the wearer and attracts good luck and health.
- Prospering business, multiplying wealth
(e) Improving Health:-
- Assists in focusing on what’s important thus allowing for more free time for true relaxation, free of guilt and stress.
- Attracts good health and improving health.
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Looks like a figure S.
Benefits:
- It is believed that the lucky S hook will bring happiness, wealth and prosperity to its owner.
- Enhance its owner’s ability to accumulate wealth by crystallizing money-making opportunities for him.
- It also ensure that the wealth will be retained within his control and not slip away.
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The Five(5)-eyes Dzi Bead supposedly received the blessings of the Five Directional Wealth Gods which bestow prosperity, longevity and success in all endeavors.
Five(5)-eyed Dzi Bead assist the wearer with :
· Attracting Blessings,
· Achieving Success,
· Better Career Advancements,
· Achieving Wisdom, endless happiness,
· Assists in obtaining whatever one desires The 5 eyed regular bead is considered a magical item and is highly sought after.
Note:There are several patterns of 5 eyed beads.
1. Regular Pattern Type (Some patterns are organized and some random.)
· Considered as a magical item where it assists the wearer to accumulate wisdom and happiness.
2. Thunder & Lightning Pattern ( where one side of dzi has a geometric looking symbol which is the lightning and the five(5) eyes are scattered about.
· helps to destroy ignorance.
3. 5 eyed Garuda Dzi Bead.
· The Garuda bead is a healer’s bead and the 5 eyes make a cross on one side, and generally one will find a lightning symbol on the opposite side of the 5 eyed cross.
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The 4 eyes on this Dzi bead is a symbolism of the 4 major Bodhisattvas of Buddhism. The 4 Mahasattva Bodhisattvas are of particular significance in Mahayana texts:· Maitreya (popularly known as Laughing Buddha),
· Avalokitesvara (popularly known as Kwan Yin),
· Manjusri, and
· Mahasthamaprapta.
As the Four(4) eyes/eyed-Dzi bead symbolizes the aforesaid 4 major bodhisattvas it therefore: 1. increase the wearer’s wisdom,
2. releases human suffering and brings forth general good fortune in human life.
3. This Dzi bead assists to Gather Wealth & Luck,
4. Serves as a Protector and Power to Ward off Evil Spirits/ Subdue Demons,
5. Clearance of Obstacles,
6. and Increasing Merit & Longevity by the 4 Bodhisattvas.
7. Helps To Overcome Negative Forces,
8. Increases Merits & Longevity
[ To the Buddhists, the Bodhisattvas are enlightened beings who have put off entering paradise in order to help others attain enlightenment. The Bodhisattva upon death leaves the cycle of life-death-rebirth and enter nirvana, but due to their great compassion for all other beings choose instead to remain in the samsaric realm to aid suffering humanity. They devote all their power and energy to saving suffering beings in this world. The Bodhisattva is motivated by compassion and guided by wisdom in his quest to guide and help suffering beings ]
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In some Dzi Beads, we see some unusual streaks or marking. The reason being that during the design & etching of the Dzi Beads, certain layers of agate or chalcedony do not accept the etching material that the symbols on Dzi Beads are derived from Because of this, the areas that refuse the etching are left having no bead design .The agate that refuses the color will normally be of a lighter gray/white in color. Interestingly this natural streak is also called Dragon Marks.
So why is such name being so called? Well, in the Ancient past, the Tibetan considered the Dragon in the highest hierarchy of the animal kingdom and is a mystical and powerful creature. The Tibetan believed that these Dragon Marks are derived when the Dragon clawed into the bead(s). Those Dzi bead marked by a dragon must have initially got the fancy of the dragon and was then dropped or discarded by the dragon because it was imperfect. However, as those Dzi Beads that have been clawed by the dragon, they are said to carry some of the energy of the dragon hence the term Dragon Mark.
These natural streaks/dragon marks will affect the grade and price of Dzi Beads but it is a rarity amongst new or modern dzi. Perhaps the reason being the new Dzi must have been selected properly under quality control hence we cannot find such “defects re: natural streaks”
Posted by slang on August 21, 2007
In the below picture, do you notice that there is the dig/chip mark shown at the left hand corner of the old dzi?
This dig mark really is chipped off normally at the corner of the dzi bead for medicinal purpose. Incidentally, the use of Dzi bead as a medical ingredients in Tibet is well known. Note that if the chipping is not properly done, the dzi bead might break.
You should not see such chip/dig mark in new dzi beads.
(Refer article on the Medicinal purpose of Dzi Beads)
