What does bracelet 14 bead mean?
Fourteen beads represent the fourteen fearless merits shared by Guanyin Bodhisattva and all sentient beings. Each bead represents a fearless merit.
The first kind of fearlessness: make all beings return to themselves and get relief.
The second kind of fearlessness: make all beings see through autumn and avoid fire.
The third kind of fearlessness: make all beings pay attention to their surroundings and avoid floods.
Fourth, fearless: protect all beings from evil spirits.
Fifth, fearless: make all beings clean and innocent.
The sixth kind of fearlessness: Buddha crosses sentient beings, so that all sentient beings are not harmed by medicine fork ghosts.
The seventh kind of fearlessness: making all beings break away from worldly fame and fortune.
Eighth fearless: make all beings walk safely and avoid thieves.
The ninth kind of fearlessness: to prevent lecherous people from having lustful thoughts.
The tenth fearlessness: Let those who hold grudges have no resentment.
Eleventh fearless: let all stupid and vicious people stay away from ignorance and understand good reason.
The twelfth fearlessness: make all living beings childless, seek men for men, and continue to burn incense.
The thirteenth kind of fearlessness: making all beings childless, and those who want women give birth to women.
Fourteenth fearless: make the believers endless.
How to wear a bead bracelet
Put your hands together first, and then put the beads on your wrist. If it's a rosary bracelet, turn it around your wrist. In the last lap, your hands should be closed, slide slowly, and then enter your wrist. In fact, now that beads are becoming popular and become a new decoration, those complicated rules are slowly forgotten. Now it's all casual.
Beads can be divided into three categories, namely, holding beads, wearing beads and hanging beads, and most Buddhists choose to hold beads. The posture of holding beads can also be divided into two types, one is holding beads with one hand, and the other is holding beads with two hands. One-handed rosary is mostly used when standing and walking; Holding beads with both hands is a common posture in meditation.
How to maintain the bead bracelet?
First, don't wear other metal ornaments at the same time when wearing a bead bracelet to avoid collision and deformation.
Second, avoid contact with water vapor and chemicals, and don't wear bathing suits, especially in seawater.
Third, if you have enough time, clean it with cotton after wearing it every day and put it in a jewelry box for preservation.
Four, beads bracelet because of wearing dust, you can use a soft brush dipped in toothpaste to scrub, after washing, you can use cotton cloth to dry.
Five, the maintenance of beads bracelets should always touch the jewelry with your hands, which will enhance the luster of the bracelet.
6. You'd better take it off when washing your hands. Soap contains alkaline substances, which will damage the beads and affect the luster.
7. Be careful not to touch acidic or alkaline substances to avoid cosmetics being contaminated by beads.
The significance of bead bracelet
The number of beads that make up a bracelet represents different meanings.
The bracelets of beads worn on the hands always remind people to be merciful, to practice from time to time, and to get rid of evil from good.
Handstrings are usually worn on the left hand, because the left hand is used less than the right hand, and Taoism also thinks that the left hand is a good hand.
A bracelet with a diameter of 14MM is generally 16.
The long bead of the Buddha bead is a fixed number, namely 108, plus a Buddha head, *** 109. Beads also have 2 16. However, the number of hand beads or bracelets is not fixed because they are worn on the wrist, but varies according to the diameter of the beads. Generally speaking, among the hand beads, 15 beads with a diameter of 15MM (including Buddha's head tee, the same below), 16 beads with a diameter of 15 mm, and 18 beads with a diameter of15 mm.