Monty Don’s Japanese Gardens
Join Monty for a tour of Japan’s best gardens where tradition and modernity flourish
Monty Don sets out to discover the true essence of these elegant gardens and what we have taken from them.
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Watched Monty Japanese gardens and thought this Englishman is on the path to enlightenment. Your so tuned in…what an examsle of a centred true Englishman. You're a guru
dear monty don. YOU started cutting the flowers of your arrangement fast: A good clas of the type would be Myagies on bonsais. He got hte boy to imagine how he wanted the tree to be and then try to form it: TO trust his vision. That might make you go slow.
I did meditation. People seem to think meditation meansgoing in to a dream, it does not, the supports given are such as keep you busy:, it is hard to bring back your mind continaully to the spot you are meant to be concentrating on. It is bringing your mind back to a boring subject that keeps you busy enough for your worries to have to go away and for you to slow down, and find that quiet place that exists in us even in the middle of storms according to the Buddha.
T here are supports thah have additional ends, for instance, to breath in green and out green is probably calming and regenerating as well as being something that you have to work to keep in mind.
Hope this is useful for you, Rose Macaskie.
Monty Don, I should think you will find that the tea cerenony is about being in communion with the Master of the ceremony.
If you whatch Jeremy Wades big rivers, in one episode he is talking about how heavily polluted the Ganges is with human waste and in this episode he met a holy man. In India there are Saddhus, men and boys, who leave home to become mendicants, wandering the streets houseless and so can spend their life concentrating on their breathing and its changes, concentrating on their boddies reactions to each emotional situation.
I think one part of this is charitable, as experts in such things they can then extend their own control of their reactions to those they are with and calm down others. If you have whatched Jeremy Wade there is in one of his episodes what i imagine was an example of one such men the episode in which jeremy awde comments on how much human waste there now is in the Ganges. he is taken for a traditional dip in the Ganges by a holy man and I noticed that when Jeremy Wade took the perscribed three dips into the ganges with the Holy man and then swam with him, some of his wrinkles seemed to me to vanish, and also his calmer self seemed to stay with him for a while. An example of the extrodinary power of some such men.
I learnt about Saddhues in the Books of the Spanish expert on such people and yoga teacher, Ramiro Calle.
Also, I have met, in Marroco, Suffis, who also have an enormouse calm, who also seemed to have developed the abilities of a Buddhist monk or Saddhu. are christians the only ones without them? Some cultures put more emphasis on catching information, about peoples state of mind and everything else than experts in actions. in study, though those who meditate are also very competent in the world of actions.
You kindly spread information on other cultures so I think you might like this information.
You should do classes in meditation if you wish to understand some of the bits of such Cultures. You need to actually meditate if you are to understand about meditation. It is dull but gives you a lot of energy and reduces stress. after meditattion you feel good and so want moreborign as it is. In the end i found I enjoyed the control of going slowly more than that of being able to control speed, a run down a ski slope for example. My uncle said he perfered the moment when he was going to hit a golf ball than beign at the top of a ski slope. Same sort of thing.
Also you might like to look at Geof Lawtons, the permaculture expert´s you tube video on a 2,000 year old food forest, in Marrocco. where fruit trees combine with dates palms and create a lot of food.
You are spreading information that helps Islamists and every other little known culture in our world, and you like gardening, so you might love this video of Geff Lawton.