Tierra Zen Land Daruma 6.5 cm purple

Description

Daruma is the doll of purposes, a Japanese good luck charm. Made with papier-mache is a representation of the monk Bodhidharma, founder of Zen Buddhism. Legend says that he reached the enlightenment after meditating in a cave for 9 years but his arms and legs fell out of atrophy. Hence the peculiar form of daruma. How to proceed we choose a purpose and paint daruma an eye. When we get it, we'll paint the other eye in a sign of gratitude. As a way of learning, we will point out how we have achieved our goal, feeling at that time a great personal satisfaction. If we do not achieve our purpose, we can burn our daruma by the end of the year: it simply means that we will seek other means to achieve it. On the spirit of daruma, his figure serves to remember that with determination and perseverance, we will achieve the purpose that we have set ourselves. In this regard, it is very important that we choose a specific objective and that it is achievable. It's not about buying a daruma and then waiting for our wishes to be fulfilled by magic: daruma motivates us to work hard and strive. For Japanese, any occasion is good to give away a daruma; yes, there are very symbolic dates such as birthdays and the new year.