{"product_id":"calm-steady-monk-statue","title":"Calm \u0026 Steady Monk Statue","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnyone can be calm sitting down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe hard part starts when you stand up. The inbox, the school run, the person who needs an answer right now. What gets called a calm person is mostly somebody who can carry the quiet from the chair to the front door, and that is what these two little monks are about. One is sitting with it. The other has got to his feet and still has it, and his raised palm is a monk's greeting, the one-handed kind, given standing and in passing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e行亦禪，坐亦禪. Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen.\u003c\/strong\u003e It is a line from a Tang dynasty Chan poem, and its point is blunt: calm that only works while you are sitting is not finished yet. The sitting is practice. The rest of the day is the test.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSo choose by where you lose it.\u003c\/strong\u003e If your trouble is stopping at all, take the seated monk and put him where you would sit if you ever let yourself: by the bed, beside the reading chair, in the corner you keep meaning to use. If you can find calm and it is gone by nine in the morning, take the standing monk and put him where the day comes at you: the desk, the hallway shelf, the kitchen counter. The pair is for most of us, who need both.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe wooden mala comes with him.\u003c\/strong\u003e Leave it draped over the figure, or lift it off and put it in your pocket on the way out. It is the one part of this you can take with you when you stand up, which is the whole idea.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor anyone who is calm until the day starts.\u003c\/strong\u003e People who meditate in the morning and are short with someone by lunch. Parents, carers, anyone whose work is other people's emergencies. It is a kind thing to give somebody starting a demanding job, coming back to work after time away, or heading into exam season, because it says keep your head without anyone having to say it out loud. Any stretch where life is about to get louder is the right time for it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFigures:\u003c\/strong\u003e Seated little monk with hands folded in his lap, or standing little monk with one palm raised in greeting\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIncluded:\u003c\/strong\u003e The wooden mala shown in the photographs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMaterial:\u003c\/strong\u003e Unglazed ceramic, coarse sandy robe against smooth dark clay skin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e The standing figure is the taller of the two. The seated figure is shown held in a hand for scale\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIntention:\u003c\/strong\u003e Calm, sitting and standing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNote:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hand finished, so the clay tone and the robe texture vary a little between pieces\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCare:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dry brush or dry cloth only, since unglazed clay takes a stain from tea and oil. Ceramic chips, so keep it back from an edge\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Earth Tibet","offers":[{"title":"Stand","offer_id":52485488804142,"sku":"14:200006152#B","price":96.05,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Sit","offer_id":52485488836910,"sku":"14:200006151#A","price":96.05,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Pair","offer_id":67597791625518,"sku":null,"price":166.6,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/4807\/7102\/files\/little-monk-zen-statue-3.webp?v=1787498616","url":"https:\/\/www.earthtibet.com\/products\/calm-steady-monk-statue","provider":"Earth Tibet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}