Abstract
From where can we draw inspiration to cultivate an intimate sensibility into the spiritual nature of landscape, the foundation for designing gardens for meditation and healing? Through various spiritual lenses, this inquiry penetrates fundamental grounds for our subtle relationship with landscape. Beginning with excerpts of a private audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Middlebury College, at which I present my proposed plans and designs for Milarepa Center in Barnet, Vermont, this inquiry looks into the profound links between spiritual inquiry and the practice of designing gardens, making design of landscape integral to a spiritual path, and the profound relationship between Landscape and Divinity. It is presented in three parts: (1) spiritual inspiration; (2) setting terms on the table; and (3) expressions of sacred landscape.
Highlights
Spiritual InspirationIn September 1984, members of Milarepa Buddhist Meditation Center were invited to a private audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Middlebury College, Vermont
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Spiritual Inspiration In September 1984, members of Milarepa Buddhist Meditation Center were invited to a private audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Middlebury College, Vermont
Summary
In September 1984, members of Milarepa Buddhist Meditation Center were invited to a private audience with His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Middlebury College, Vermont. Its intricate weaving of solidity, wetness, heat, cold, atmosphere and space over time became the focus of a walking meditation through the woods, enabling adherents to better know themselves; to teach that the balance and harmony revealed most dramatically in nature—the forms that nature assumed, processes that shaped them and the period of time it took to produce, abide and dissolve—to abide deeply within each individual His devotion of spiritual energy to the design of Saiho-ji and Tenryu-ji, and the lessons he learned through this work, provided me with continual inspiration from which I would derive support throughout my professional and spiritual life. As you know, my relationship with reality is not necessarily brilliant”. 6
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