Zen and the art of temple garden maintenance

[Seishin]

Seishin I'm reading this lovely book at the moment, it mainly deals with larger gardens - I can't quite fit a waterfall into my 8,50m x 2,5m cortile, but even so, it's an inspiring read. https://www.shambhala.com/the-sound-...-blossoms.html
Gassho
Meitou
Satwithyoualltoday

Looks very interesting. Thank you.

[Jakuden]

Thank you for this thread Meitou! And Kotei for your thoughts and photos.

Gassho,
Jakuden
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[Kakunen]

Zen and the art of temple garden maintenance

I am sorry

I am Japanese

So I know this video is fake.

Monk do not keep garden for practice.

You must understand this fact.

I think this is kind bad dream.


If you will come Japan ,you will realize.

Please come to Japan and keep garden without money.

Gassho
Sat today
Kakunen


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[Jundo]

I am sorry

I am Japanese

So I know this video is fake.

Monk do not keep garden for practice.

You must understand this fact.

I think this is kind bad dream.


If you will come Japan ,you will realize.

Please come to Japan and keep garden without money.

Gassho
Sat today
Kakunen


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Depends on the monk. For most of the temples with complicated gardens, one person cannot do it, and professional gardeners are needed. (Even at Treeleaf, our little garden would die without a professional). However, some of the priests are really good gardeners! In fact, some of the lay people just in my own neighborhood are amazing gardeners and keep beautiful Japanese gardens.

I think that for many priests, gardening is not a spiritual practice. But for some priests, it is. Depends on the person. (Not so much for me, but I pull weeds and trim some hedges, which I find good Practice too).

Gassho, J

SatTodayLAY

[Amelia]

I'm pretty sure I remember from the video that the priest mentioned that most temples hire gardeners. I think the point of the video was to feature the few priests that make it part of temple practice. However, I do not speak Japanese, and only read the subtitles, so he could have been talking about anything and I wouldn't know.

Gassho, sat today, lah

[Kakunen]

Zen and the art of temple garden maintenance

I think about this video.
I am sure in this temple professional gardener and monk named business man keep garden.

Almost garden at city side like Kyoto is same situation.

Japanese Buddhism almost die.

From my experience,difficult to find place to sit everyday ,especially Sesshin.

https://youtu.be/E8jS6uAFJrk

Sharing video at Antaiji,not so beautiful.

Sat today
Gassho
Kakunen


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