This is what I get for only sporadically reading all the new posts in LiveJournal (I get seduced by the constant flow of new posts over on Facebook).
I am interested in hearing more about your Kyoto experience. Were those stones in a rock garden? Was there a shelf or stage you could sit on and contemplate the rock garden (which if I remember correctly was supposed to symbolize the tops of mountains poking out of the tops of clouds represented by a bed of white sand)?
Sorry to hear about your challenges, health both physical and mental. I've been battling depression for so long, I'm no longer sure of where it ends and I begin again.
It is indeed a rock garden. The Ryoan-ji temple. I don't know if you can call this a shelf but there is indeed a spot were one can sit and watch, and meditate. The signification of these 15 stones is not clearly stated. Some say it is islands, other mountains, it s not an absolute for this temple has been destroyed and remade in the 16th century as far i as remember
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The that was the garden I was thinking of. My Japanese host told me that if you meditate upon the garden and asked it any question, it will answer. Well, actually the 'garden itself' does not answer, but there is something calming about the place and it allowed my heart to speak its truth to my conscious mind. I knew what I must do.
And then it took me another 15 years before I finally did it. :(
In a fact this gardens raised more questions than it solved, but strangely it was providing a sort of frame in which reflexions were possible. Despite the richess of the vegetation around, the exquisite, refined work on the woods of the temple laid this bare raked stone garden like a blank page, a serenity i had never experienced before, and had never since.
Oh, and I hear you about the French government. Here in North America, everyone on the continent is watching with horror as Donald Trump continues his parade of hits.
I just hope the americans figure out that what they need is get out of oligarchy, and vote Bernie Sanders. This libertarian bullshit ideas spread like a bad smell and infect the whole of our societies. The earlier the people will see that they need solidarity to get a better society the best.
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I am interested in hearing more about your Kyoto experience. Were those stones in a rock garden? Was there a shelf or stage you could sit on and contemplate the rock garden (which if I remember correctly was supposed to symbolize the tops of mountains poking out of the tops of clouds represented by a bed of white sand)?
Sorry to hear about your challenges, health both physical and mental. I've been battling depression for so long, I'm no longer sure of where it ends and I begin again.
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And then it took me another 15 years before I finally did it. :(
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The earlier the people will see that they need solidarity to get a better society the best.
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