The Three Wheels Garden Poem
How might the designers of the Three Wheels Zen garden explain their creation?
A Message to Visitors from the Garden Designers
Here in the garden
do not ask who made it,
or why, or whenthe garden is
and you are.Be.
Things are
what they seem
and are not
what they seemand neither is true
or untrue.There are islands
and forests
and mountains
and vast
grey seas,
if you see it so.There are peaks
above rolling blankets
of grey cloud,
Mount Sumeru
and Mount Hiei,
if you see it so.And there is yourself.
If you see it so,
there are twelve small rocks
of no consequence
from Cumbria
and Aberdeenshire,
from screes
and spoilheaps
and river beds.You can make of the garden
What you will.But it may, perhaps,
make something of you,
which you were not,if you wait
and are still;if you become one
with the garden
and move beyond thought
or imagination,and are
as the garden
is.
Continue reading: Zen Buddhist gardens.
Other Sources of Information
www.threewheels.co.uk - For more information and pictures of Three Wheels Zen garden in west London. The garden is easily reached by public transport, and can be visited on Open Gardens days or by arrangement (Phone Reverend Sato – see website for contact details).