I. INTRODUCTION Using the Clock for Yoga and Other Practices Mindfulness Your Zen Timepiece is designed to add elegance and aesthetic Using the Clock to Begin and End Meetings sophistication to your environment, both visually and audibly. From a visual perspective, the clock is most beautiful when its IV.
COUNTDOWN Chime on the Hour Function ALARM ON/OFF Zen Timepiece START/PAUSE/RESET Icon. Activated (when the In the Clock mode In the Countdown and Alarm Time. A small alarm is off) by holding down this large wood button Icons indicate “Balloon Help”...
However, it can be set to strike quite loudly if volume is required. II. OPERATION INSTRUCTIONS Your Zen Timepiece is the result of ten years of product Install Batteries evolution at Now & Zen, and we trust that you will find it a Using a small Phillips head screwdriver, remove the battery delight and a pleasure.
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Testing and Adjusting the Sound of the Bell Strike strike force setting, and the countdown timer is initially set at Your Zen Timepiece is like a musical instrument and can be 10 seconds. adjusted to produce a wide variety of loud and soft sounds.
Operation Operation below, the left knob controls the power in the “Lo” setting and TOP VIEW the right knob adjusts the power in the “Hi” setting. BOWL DIRECTION OF ADJUSTMENT STRIKER Setting the Alarm Time In addition to activating the “Lo” and “Hi” strike force Find the “Sweet Spot”...
Operation Operation a timer. Once in countdown mode, the “SET CLOCK/TIMER” button allows the countdown time to be set Terminal 10 Minute Progression Cycle of Bell Strikes to the second. When the countdown timer reaches “zero” seconds, the clock strikes once and begins its automatic ten minute strike progression sequence (the same as its alarm First Bell...
Care of Your Zen Timepiece At the end of the clock’s ten minute strike progression The Zen Timepiece is designed for indoor use only. Keep it sequence (in either the clock or countdown modes), the clock will be striking every 6.5 seconds—this is the “terminal cycle”...
Clean the clock with a dry cloth. Never use detergents, furniture polishes, or oils on your clock as these liquids may come into contact with the clock’s internal circuitry and cause a malfunction. The Zen Timepiece’s brass bowl may be cleaned with any commercially-available metal III. SUGGESTED USES cleaner.
But in without further disturbance. The interval between the first addition to its use as an alarm clock, your Zen Timepiece is and second bowl strike can provide a brief period of time for also an aesthetically-sophisticated timer that enhances practice you to reach a conclusion to your dream.
When you are Using Your Progressive Awakening Time first awakened by the Zen Timepiece, lie quietly in bed before for the Practice of Affirmations moving or opening your eyes and repeat your affirmation to Just in between the sleeping and waking state is a brain state yourself three times.
“make time” to Mantra is a sanskrit word which means “mental protection.” meditate. The first and most basic use of the Zen Timepiece in In Eastern meditation traditions, a mantra takes the form of a...
In the Christian monastic tradition, the environment. The Zen Timepiece has been designed so that it ringing of the bell during meditation reminds the practitioners can be positioned either with the clock display in the front, or to return to the object of worship.
Suggested Uses Suggested Uses The Zen Timepiece can serve as a mindfulness bell in two meeting timer, the first bowl strike of the clock’s automatic, ways: it can be set to strike on the hour (providing an hourly progressive strike sequence provides a gentle warning of the moment of stillness), or it can be set to strike at a programmed meeting’s agreed-to conclusion, with the following strikes...
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Thich Nhat Hanh Peace is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness STRIKE PROGRESSION in Everyday Life. Bantam Books 1992 The Zen Timepiece’s progressive strike function (activated by Tolle, Eckart The Power of Now. New World Library 1998 either the alarm or the countdown timer) takes place over about ten minutes.
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As approximately 38%, and the large part is 62% of the whole. the Zen Timepiece’s bowl strikes grow closer together, they This creates a relationship of “fractal self-similarity” wherein form an “audible golden spiral”...
China prior to 1,000 B.C. The bowl that comes with your Zen Timepiece is modeled after a Japanese “rin gong,” or Keisu, that is periodically struck with a stick to punctuate sutra-reading in Buddhist temples.
VI. NOW & ZEN’S GUARANTEE AND LIMITED WARRANTY The bowl that comes with your Zen Timepiece is made from the following five metals: copper, zinc, lead, iron, and tin. It Your Zen Timepiece is guaranteed against mechanical...
Warranty polishes on the wood platform, and NEVER ADD LUBRICANT OF ANY KIND TO THE STRIKING MECHANISM. Your brass bowl may be cleaned with any VII. ABOUT NOW & ZEN commercially-available metal cleaner, If you have any questions or problems with the operation of your Zen Founded in Boulder, Colorado in 1995, Now &...
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About Now & Zen The Digital Zen Stillness of being is also an integral part of a natural lifestyle. Alarm Clock ® The Tibetan Phone The practices of prayer, meditation, and yoga all contribute Bell & Timer to a stillness of being. Now & Zen products serve as ™...
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