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Jun 25 2009 7 Comments

Tranquil time out #50

Zen and the art of meticulously sculpted maintenance.

Ginkaku-ji

A survey into sand.

Categorized: Religion, Tranquil time out

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  1. The Envoy says

    6/25/2009 at 9:42 pm

    Such nice straight lines.

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  2. Rrabano says

    6/25/2009 at 9:50 pm

    Peace. I always wndr how this got started.

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  3. ait_meijin says

    6/26/2009 at 5:40 am

    @Rrabano: afaik they use some kind of a long wooden bridges to reach everywhere and make no harm to existing lines.

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  4. Rrabano says

    6/26/2009 at 5:59 am

    Domo Arigato! meijin sun. for explaining the lines.

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  5. phossil says

    6/26/2009 at 9:02 am

    its really clean and peacefull.

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  6. Tornadoes28 says

    6/28/2009 at 2:40 am

    I love these gardens. The way the photo is taken, it makes the garden and temple look a small scale model.

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  7. Helen says

    7/1/2009 at 11:48 pm

    Zen gardens are quite peaceful. Also, kudo’s for working in the Pirsig reference (that book has been haunting me since high school).

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