Video about the Wisdom Garden by Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche youtu.be/7JueS-yathM The next big project is starting at Gomde in the upcoming days. We wish to transform the parking lot next to the house to become a wisdom garden. Why wisdom garden? You can read the answer that Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche gave just last week when we asked him this. Earth, water, fire, and wind. The elements, trees, flowers. They all have power. For example if one practices or lives in a place with a spring nearby so that one hears constantly the sound of water, this will make ones life longer. It will physically relax and make the life longer. If wherever we live the back side is rocky, this will make the mind more solid. If we live on top of a hill and where the earth is unstable, it will make the mind very jumpy. Of course no need to say about how much fresh unpolluted air helps the health and the mind. Now we are talking about flowers or trees. They have so much healing power. They develop mental calmness, kindness, sharpness. The flowers, looking at flowers, gardening, taking care of the flowers. Why do people like flowers? Most flowers you cant eat them but they are very healing physically and mentally. They make mind more softer, more kinder, more wiser. Flowers are so important in human life, for any time - birth time, any ceremony, any religious ritual, even in time of sadness, and exciting times. In the west when you fall in love or at marriage time. In many many occasions flowers are so important. Having a garden is very good. Why? Because everyone can enjoy. Whoever comes, everyone can enjoy. If we pick up one or two flowers and put to our dining hall or spiritual hall or office, the whole environment will change. However many decorations and expensive objects you have, if you dont have flowers, you will feel something is missing. Even if you live very simply but you have a few flowers, it really heals. There is so much power. How it looks like, how it smells. The feeling. So united. Therefore flower is wisdom, flower is kindness, flower is base of tolerance, and flower is healing. The bottom line is that flowers heal. Gardening is so important. To have a public garden - trees, flowers, green grass, water - this combination even if we just look, it heals our stress, worry, and fear. It brings mentally peace, calm, ease. On top of that we feel more wise. It has so much power. So for that reason, please all of you, good to involve in making this wisdom garden. To make beauty is possible. If many of you join to help - come and put flowers and trees - it will last for long and so many people will come and enjoy. Thank you very much. We need help to make this happen in the next two months before the big celebrations of Gomdes 10 year anniversary. So we need helpers - people who are experienced and love gardening as well as people who are willing to work and want to learn. We also need lots of financial help to get the plants. There will be tens if not hundreds of different flowers each costing 2 to 2675 Euros. There will be four big “Cloudtrees“. If Rinpoches aspiration to bring more calmness, kindness, and wisdom to many by creating an inspirational environment moves you then please consider coming and helping or making a donation. If you have any questions please do call us or write us or just come by. The Gomde team
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 08:20:20 +0000
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