Modern Zen river rocks represent a river. SourceĪ close up – stunning simplicity in the cement, water and bamboo. Kengo Kuma Architects rendering of a Zen garden is ultra modern. You can use colored rocks in your zen garden for a stunning effect. Match your sand and rock color for a stunning look in your zen place. Rocks make a great meditation focus point for your zen garden. Just try to stick to the basic principles (don’t get too fancy). Or you could use colorful rocks for your pathways. Rocking Your Zen GardenĪside from the natural rocks that represent mountains, you can also build a meditation tower of rocks.
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You’ll need to buy a full size Zen garden rake if you want to use sand or finely crushed stone to represent water. Other than that, they don’t take much maintenance. Raking your Zen garden is a form of mediation. See how the zen garden flows? And it is so balanced and natural. You can make your sand ocean as wavy as you like. The rocks look like islands in the ocean, don’t they? Source The roof catches falling blossoms or leaves. It’s great to have a dedicated large space for your garden – but not required. If you create your garden near coniferous trees – you’ll be picking up leaves all fall. In the case below, a roof does a lot of the leaf catching. The Zen garden must be quiet and must promote the seven guiding principles above. The Seven Guiding Principles of a Zen Garden There are never flowers – there can be grasses and plants (bamboo comes to mind) and select trees (Ornamental Cherry, Japanese Maple), shorter trees that can be trimmed with canopy tops. You may incorporate actual water features but more often than not, Zen gardens are dry. Rocks symbolize mountains, while raked gravel or sand suggest ripples on the water. If an old English garden or a wildflower meadow is your cup of tea – you won’t like a this garden, trust me. On a visual level, Zen gardening is all about precision and Balance. A Zen garden should promote naturalness (Shizen), simplicity (Kanso) and austerity (Koko). Think of it as your quiet space, your escape from reality – you can even use it as your meditation area. It’s here and now, its shedding “ego”… and it’s a great design for your backyard. Zen involves dropping illusion and seeing things without distortion created by your own thoughts.”
“One way to think of zen is this: a total state of focus that incorporates a total togetherness of body and mind.
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