Thursday, August 6, 2015
from: "Inner and outer meaning in Zen Gardens, part III—Karensansui"
http://zenyogagurdjieff.blogspot.de
There is a series of posts just now in this blog about Zen gardening which is quite enlightening and
very nice to read.
"The emptiness (the gravel bed) isn’t really empty — it consists of waves, raked lines that move in concentric circles and parallel paths through and around the environment. These “waves” represent not only ordinary waves (a commonplace, but entirely superficial, interpretation), but vibrations— elements of movement through a subtle atmosphere, the atmosphere of being, as impressions travel in and out of Being itself. "
"The gravel itself is absolutely not an arbitrary medium; it is carefully chosen to represent the fact that there is a granular nature to reality itself, that reality has a microcosmic texture to it. While we already know that this is true from quantum exploration of the standard model universe, it is not just intuited through Zen practice — there is a practical experience of that granular nature of reality, which a certain range of vibration within human beings can encounter without any technological assistance. This is a subtle and mystical experience, not subject to reductive thinking; it brings us very close to the nature of reality itself, a place of perception that allows us to participate in an intimate understanding of how the world arises and manifests. "
There is a series of posts just now in this blog about Zen gardening which is quite enlightening and
very nice to read.
"The emptiness (the gravel bed) isn’t really empty — it consists of waves, raked lines that move in concentric circles and parallel paths through and around the environment. These “waves” represent not only ordinary waves (a commonplace, but entirely superficial, interpretation), but vibrations— elements of movement through a subtle atmosphere, the atmosphere of being, as impressions travel in and out of Being itself. "
"The gravel itself is absolutely not an arbitrary medium; it is carefully chosen to represent the fact that there is a granular nature to reality itself, that reality has a microcosmic texture to it. While we already know that this is true from quantum exploration of the standard model universe, it is not just intuited through Zen practice — there is a practical experience of that granular nature of reality, which a certain range of vibration within human beings can encounter without any technological assistance. This is a subtle and mystical experience, not subject to reductive thinking; it brings us very close to the nature of reality itself, a place of perception that allows us to participate in an intimate understanding of how the world arises and manifests. "
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