Welcome
to the Zen Garden
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Like a tiny seed planted into my soul I dreamed to journey to the msytical land of the East.
We searched for a primordial spiritual resonance that was
visible and tangible.
By creating a Zen Garden we searched for the disciplined striving
and spiritual development, for meditation and relaxation.
Away from the stresses of everyday life our garden creates a place
where we can let go of our egos and learn to become a transformed person.
The horticultural therapy that the garden brings leaves us transcended
forever.
Our
garden has well-weathered sculptured rocks who form mountains and sand to
the flowing water.
We created islands that
represent symbols of longevity and continued health.
Pathyways, murmuring waters, flaming bushes and different types of evergreens
balance or soften the stones.
Our garden is nature on
a microcosmic scale, this is not to say it is nature imitated, rather it
is nature symbolized and represented.
The stones
and granite statues, temples, laterns and pagodas become alive, they have
taken on antique patina and mosses and glow in the darkness of the New England
winters.
The garden has not a single
view but many views, each one appearing as one moves through the garden.
It is like a rolling picture
scroll that prompts surprise at every turn.
As the lamps illuminate the dark world, we hear the Buddha's teaching.
"Be ye lamps unto yourselves.
Take the Self as your refuge. Take yourself to no external refuge, and concomitantly,
the recognition that the roots of our afflictions lie nowhere but in ourselves.
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