#zen

psychmesu@diaspora.glasswings.com

https://mastodon.social/@camelliakyoto/113325954606611680 camelliakyoto@mastodon.social - 🕯️📿THE IMPERMANENCE OF ALL THINGS🙏🕯️

For one week from mid-October each year Tōrin-in (東林院), a sub-temple of Myōshin-ji, illuminates its main garden with 800 candles.

The "Bontō no akari ni shitashimu-kai" (梵燈のあかりに親しむ会) is intended as an elegant form of prayer.

#Myoshinji #妙心寺 #zen #lantern #Torinin #東林院 #lightup

psychmesu@diaspora.glasswings.com

https://mastodon.social/@camelliakyoto/113235196122550844 camelliakyoto@mastodon.social - 🪨THE RIDDLE OF RYŌAN-JI'S GARDEN🤔

Ryōan-ji's (竜安寺) dry landscape garden (枯山水 'karesansui') is by far the most famous zen garden in the world.

It is a 'koan' (公案 a zen riddle without a solution, intended to focus & open the mind) written in gravel, rocks and moss.

#Japan #Kyoto #京都 #Ryoanji #龍安寺 #公案 #zen #善 #枯山水 #karesansui

girlofthesea@diasporasocial.net

#mywriting #granite #garden #zen #japan
FOUNDATION GRANITE ROCK
I created my own dynasty, with a name that I selected for myself and my children.
I am a Servant of Humanity.
My sons can stand alone. They put good into the world, rather than more evil
corruption and cruelty.
Their sons and daughters can stand alone. They too put good into the world
rather than more evil, corruption and cruelty.
Now, I'm a large, granite rock, on the ground, looking up at the sunshine and sky.
I know there's the Tree Forest nearby, and a wonderful raging ocean ~
but I like it here, beside my deceased son, where we both blend in, and can be silent.