Zen stone gardens emerged as a popular garden style in Japan around the 15th century due to… 😆
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There are so many beautiful stone gardens in Kyoto and samurai loved them too. You know why? Due to budgetary reasons. Nobles and samurai lords up around the 15th century liked having huge green gardens. Scaled down mountains and lakes inspired by breathtaking mother nature made viewable from the comfort of your home. They loved it. Every rich family had one. But in 1467 war broke out among a bunch of power- hungry nobles and samurai. The oning war took place in Kyoto and it lasted 10 years. So Kyoto was like flattened. Everything went on fire including the homes and gardens of nobles and samurai who lived in Kyoto. Now during this time Zen Buddhism was becoming popular in the samurai world because its stoic approach to enlightenment resonated with the stoic way of life of the samurai. And luckily for samurai, Zen provided not only spiritual health but also practical solutions to their biggest problems. I spent like three years worth of my income on a new garden last year. And I had maybe maybe one cup of tea in a serial space before someone samurai family came in and trample all over everything. They glazed my garden with their blood, body parts, and intestines. I had a little hut on that little artificial island over there, but apparently fire arrows are a thing these days. One thing I don’t like about battles is that they cost a [Music] shitload of money. I’m a samurai. I live for and off of battles. I’m supposed to entertain these intrusive thoughts. But my bills tempt me. And that’s why Zen has really helped me. I can focus on the now, not when the bills are due. This counseling session is great. Let’s talk about something more mentally stimulating, shall we? So, Zen Master, why is it that you guys make your gardens out of stones and pebbles and make them look like rivers and waterfalls? Do you hear the sound of the river? There is no river nearby. But now that you mention it, I do recall the sound of a river in my mind. Yes, we can choose to feel things. We can feel a garden without the garden. But we cannot feel the garden without our choosing to feel it. So which shall we keep? A real garden or our choice to engage with the world around us? Okay. But don’t you want to see the sexy shadows cast from trees? The smell of real grass? Nothing beats the experience of walking along the banks of a body of maintenance is easier. I like how much does it cost to build the stone garden? Like compared to my old green garden, it’s about this much. A tenth. Where are my servants? Go get them pretty stones. So, some gardens claim space in the repertoire of Japanese garden styles.
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The main maintenance problem is gonna be any plants that grow up through the gravel. And maybe the creation of a small heat island effect. But one is relatively easy to solve if you have servants, and the other by having, like, two trees and a bunch of moss strategically placed. So, yeah, I kinda want to have servants weeding the gravel type money
so zen is "i'm too poor so i play make believe" got it 😅
Nooooooo just no what is that
Gay
And now I'm mentally trying to work out the logistics of making a stone garden that I can keep in my apartment. Think a kiddie pool would work?
I really liked that Zen Bhudism teaching there. I can vibe with that. I definitely feel like you can have a fancy garden and not engage with it at all. When you've lost it you most certainly can engage with it more because engagement with loss is kind of forced upon us. So you have a choice to either remember your beautiful garden and the peace of nature. Or you can wallow about it and be forever unhappy about the loss of the garden you never really cared for in the first place… However you can definitely also enjoy your Garden while you had it lol.
I love stone too😂
I'm so chronic online that when I hear "Nothing beats…"my stupid ass thought he would end this sentence with something else
Arizona, learned the same lesson.😅
they keep it real. cleaning blood of stones is cheaper than replanting a trampled garden.
Modern utilitarian architecture needs this kind of PR.
LMAOOOO the zen buddhist were like therapist 😭😭
This unironically also kind of applies to the stony deserts that tend to spread in Germany currently, Stone gardens have become an ecological problem in some regions.
When social media and "experts" romanticized and provides complex narratives when in fact its just for practicality 🤣
Yeah… until westerneds tried to emulate stone gardens in desert areas… inadvertently increasing by 10° the temperature in that 'garden' and surrounding areas.
They succeed in making gardens with even less biodiversity than lawn
Me with 3d game graphics, I'll start saying stylized graphics are Zen and let you engage with the world in a more meaningful way
That actually explains a lot 😂 you can have pocket stone gardens now, just a tiny little square on your coffee table with a little scooper 😂
Why pay for things you can remember for free? Take a walk in the local park, return and meditate to the beauty in your mind.
My mom used to watch this show to help her get a script and figure out a plan to deal with my grandmother's hoard of clothing. For 4 years she would go through it with my grandmother as she transitioned from her home to the senior care center. There was still so much when she died. Mom is still recovering from it all. And my grandmother didn't get really bad until she was in her 70s. I can't imagine having to grow up in it.
I know it is so hard for your family and other families to be on the show. Sometimes it's so exploitive. But at least for my family this show and these stories helped us prevent this trauma from being passed down our family line.
You know what they say, if life gets the blood of your enemies all over your garden, make life take the garden back and replace is with stones.
As a broke American, I have embraced a lot of Zen aesthetic out of budgetary necessity.
So… The series Babylon 5 had it wrong. Its not about the lack of space(they were in space after all), but about the cost of maintenance. They could have an actual garden with edible plants. In a closed environement, so the polen or seeds would not propagate to others cultural habitats.
This probably also explain the bonzai trees.
Go get em pretty stones!!!✨️
I love your videos! You definitely talk fast and convey a lot of information and pitifully, i am having a hardntime concentrating with the music playing as well…😢 i hope you can help those of you getting older to hear and understand better! I think it is a processing thing at least that is how I perceive this difficulty of mine. I hope you can take it into consideration! Thank you!
That's my new favorite way to pronounce/emphasize "intestines" 🤣
how many time the expl;ication for thing in japan was : noble and samourai went broke ? XD
And they WONT BURN!😅
So gaslight yourself into believing something is there when it's not? Gaslight Gardens!
“GO GET ‘EM PRETTY STONES!!!”
😂 I want a sticker with this
All that perfectly raked sand… Neko San is in litter box heaven.😻
Had to watch again cause I misread the title of the war, read Onion war first time around. XD
I choose, to feel my money. The real answer.
They are also popular if you live in a Dry Area like New Mexico (its very dry and mountainous there and only Desert Plants will grow)
im starting to think that the beauty in simplicity culture in Japan started because people kept loosing money and honestly i dig it
I mean, planting it with thorny flowers will stop them from trampling through your garden
I’m pretty sure those original gardens and golf are what inspired landscaping in America in the 20th century
He is SO INTENSE! 🤣 He really needs some Zen gardens to chill by.
Then don't make a garden if the whole thing is just a field with stones
Being allergic to pollen, I think I have the right to say I can feel the garden without choosing to feel the garden.