1. Zen and the Art of Gardening
Reduced and abstracted to essentials, the stone garden expresses the seven characteristics of Zen Art:
Fukinsei – asymmetry, open balance.
Kanso – simplicity, purity, reduction.
Koko – precious simplicity, maturity, completion.
Shizen – spontaneous nature, unaffected, creative, inventive.
Yugen – unfathomable depth, grace, noble reticence.
Datsuzoku – overcoming the world.
Seijaku – pure stillness.
from Japanese Gardens by Irmtraud Schaarschmidt-Richter and Osamu Mori