Once, in ancient times, when the World-Honored One was at Mount Grdhrakata, he twirled a flower before his assembled disciples. All were silent.
Only Mahakasyapa broke into a smile.
-Buddhist kôan
The garden is a rug onto which the whole world comes to enact its symbolic perfection, and the rug is a sort of garden that can move across space
-Foucault “Of Other Spaces”
The Persian garden functioned as a microcosm, as a heterotopia, with plants from the four corners of the earth, and a fountain or umbilicus as the center of the garden. Persian rugs illustrate different configurations of these gardens and use Islamic patterning and symbology to weave magical carpets.
Here is a flowering prayer rug of faith, hope and letting go.
The garden is…the place where nature is simultaneously welcomed, resisted, nourished and controlled.
-Rebecca K. Gould “At Home in Nature-Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America”
2008
Only Mahakasyapa broke into a smile.
-Buddhist kôan
The garden is a rug onto which the whole world comes to enact its symbolic perfection, and the rug is a sort of garden that can move across space
-Foucault “Of Other Spaces”
The Persian garden functioned as a microcosm, as a heterotopia, with plants from the four corners of the earth, and a fountain or umbilicus as the center of the garden. Persian rugs illustrate different configurations of these gardens and use Islamic patterning and symbology to weave magical carpets.
Here is a flowering prayer rug of faith, hope and letting go.
The garden is…the place where nature is simultaneously welcomed, resisted, nourished and controlled.
-Rebecca K. Gould “At Home in Nature-Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America”
2008
