{"title":"Tiantai — Terrace of Heaven","description":"\u003cp\u003eA mountain of folded peaks, named for the Terrace stars it was said to stand beneath. This chapter is for new beginnings, and for the path you have not taken yet.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"enduring-form","title":"Enduring Form — Silver Mountain Pendant","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTime, given form.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe place\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMount Tiantai rises in layer upon layer of peaks; the ancients named it for the three stars said to stand above it. In the Sui dynasty, Master Zhiyi founded the Tiantai school here, and Guoqing Temple has stood for more than fourteen hundred years. The Tang poet Hanshan lived as a hermit on this mountain, writing his poems on rocks, on tree trunks, on walls — then walked into the hills and left no name. The mountain kept his poems for him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA thousand miles to the north, at Longmen on the Yi River, craftsmen spent more than four hundred years cutting over a hundred thousand Buddhas into the cliffs, one stroke at a time. Through fifteen centuries of wind and rain, the stone has remembered every mark.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe design\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnduring Form is an open circle holding a single mountain. The surface keeps a carved, stone-like relief; the edges are polished by hand. The opening is what is still unfinished. The mountain is what does not move. The texture is every road you have walked.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe meaning\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEarth, in the Five Elements: the ground beneath every season, carrying everything, saying nothing, never absent. The Buddhists say all things are impermanent — and that is exactly why what time chooses to keep is so precious. Enduring Form is for new beginnings, and for the patience to see them through.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eMaterial: 925 sterling silver\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eElement: Earth\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eSacred land: Tiantai\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eBlessing: Career · Retrograde Protection\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eA small ritual\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePut it on the first day of something new, and keep wearing it until the new thing becomes ordinary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eCATHORA pieces are rooted in Chinese cultural traditions and are intended for personal reflection and meaning. 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Water has to be still before it can hold the sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the foot of the mountain, Guoqing Temple has kept its morning bell and evening drum for some fourteen hundred years. In the Tang dynasty the Japanese monk Saichō crossed the sea to study here, and carried this practice home to Mount Hiei. The quiet of one mountain reached the far side of the sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe design\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eChengxin is strung on clear quartz, like a pool of still water. Through it run four beads of black-gold super seven, their natural red-brown threads crossing inside the crystal; one tiger's eye with a moving band of gold; a pair of agarwood spacers, dark and quiet, with a faint scent of wood up close; and one free-form piece of clear quartz. Clear and warm in turn — like morning light on a mountain pool.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe meaning\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMetal, in the Five Elements. Metal is the colour white, and stands for clarity and gathering in. Clear quartz has long been counted among the Buddhist seven treasures, a sign of a clear heart; folk tradition links super seven with drawing in good fortune, and tiger's eye with keeping you safe. When things grow noisy, may you pause first — once the heart is still, the road shows itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eThe piece\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eMaterial: Clear quartz · super seven · agarwood · tiger's eye\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eElement: Metal\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eSacred land: Mount Tiantai\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003eBlessing: Peace \u0026 Safety · Wealth\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eA small ritual\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen your mind is crowded, stop what you are doing and look at the crystal on your wrist. 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