mani 10
2019 Jun 01
Redcliffe bay looking towards Battery Point. This is where I found a really lovely stone. The date is approximate, I think it was in the summer of 2019 ish.
I chose this one because of how beautifully flat it is and its colours and diagonal grain.
It is made of Upper Old Red Sandstone.
background of the mantra
how I learned
All cleaned and prepared with the tools sharpened. The hammer is still the one I got in Ladakh from the yogins.
session #1 2021-08-21
Roughing out the letters ‘Om Mani Padme Hum’.
This is how far I got in 3/4 of an hour chiselling. Much longer than that I can trigger a PEM attack
session #2 & #3 2021-08-22
session #4 2021-08-23
session #5 2021-08-24
session #6 2021-08-25
‘dme’ roughed out
session #1 2021-08-21
first pass completed
session #8 & #9 2021-08-27
Most of the ‘om’ defined.
Top of the first letter defined.
session #10 2021-08-28
‘ma’ defined.
session #11 2021-08-29
’ni’ defined.
session #12 2021-08-30
Half of ‘dme’ defined.
session #13 2021-08-31
Finish ‘dme’ and half of ‘hum’. Also the perimeter.
session #14 2021-09-01
Second pass completed, all letters defined.
session #15 2021-09-02
Finishing using my original Ladakhi fine tools.
session #16 2021-09-03
And that’s it finished! Together with the initial preparation and finishing this amounts to 18 sessions of around an hour each.
A kind of timelapse version is here