Is Gardening a Zen Experience?
According to Zen Buddhist author Geri Larkin it is. ...an excerpt from Larkin's book, Plant Seed, Pull Weed Seeds and seedlings grow into forests step by step. In this growing they have the capacity to support societies where every single person is honored. All you and I need to do is start planting the seeds. This is a small doing. One simple act followed by the next simple act, resting when we need to rest, admiring what we need to admire. Seeds to gardens, gardens to forests, forests to seeds to gardens, in an exquisite dance. Is any part of gardening Zen-like? I asked myself this question as I went outside this morning. Just asking the question made the experience more ethereal and helped me focus on the present moment. Attending to the task in front of me instead of doing it while thinking about something else, made the time much more pleasant. So, about 50-daffodil bulbs, 5 asters, 10 Azure Sage were planted, zinnia seeds were collected, ocimum basilicum Purpurascens (purple ...