Mini Zen Garden

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Mini Zen gardens have an amazing effect on one's personality, and also the environment. What's more, they are easy to make and can be kept anywhere in your house! Make one for yourself and feel its beautiful, calming presence enhance your meditative experience!

Zen gardening is an ancient stress-relief activity, which brings a sense of peace and calmness to the mind. Buddhist monks introduced this concept in the sixth century. These Japanese gardens were especially designed for meditations. They are the perfect blend of man-made material and nature itself, and are created to experience tranquility.

These gardens enable a person to concentrate by closing all doors of distraction and stress of outside world. But now, as there is limited space everywhere, it is a bit difficult to make one for yourself. So, mini Zen gardens are being created to experience the same feeling. Before learning to make one yourself, let us see what it is all about.

Zen Garden

It is a kind of Japanese garden that has gravel arranged in such a way that resembles flowing water, stones kept to give an appearance of a mountain, and plants. All these elements are brought together to give a perfect feel of nature.

They have gained immense popularity in the West. Creating this garden is very easy as well. Zen also means 'dry', that means a garden that hardly requires water, so it is easy to maintain.

Maintenance of these gardens is quite simple and easy after it has taken proper shape and structure. The word Zen has been derived from the Sanskrit word dhyana, i.e., to contemplate. It is actually a school of Mahayana Buddhism that accentuates meditation for the awakening of the conscious.

Zen gardens are supposed to be a good source of calmness for mind, soul, and body. Miniature gardens play a very important role in today's stressful environment.

If you want to make one for yourself, then you must have a kit which includes a handmade container, fine sand, bamboo rake, polished stones, and figurines of various styles and colors. Apart from all these things, you can also buy a complete Feng Shui guide, if you wish.

Procedure

Pour fine sand in the container. The size of the container depends on how big a garden you want. You can use a necklace box or a sushi tray.

Decorate the small polished rocks and gravel on the sand. Make different patterns on the sand by using a bamboo rake or a forked stick. You can also make it more beautiful by placing different shaped rocks, or by keeping a Buddha figurine in the garden and giving it a more authentic look.

Accessories

You can make your mini Zen garden more attractive by adding some accessories like : ▶ Fisherman ▶ Mini Pavilion ▶ Small Pavilion ▶ Goose ▶ Medium Rocks ▶ Large Rocks ▶ Rocks with Words ▶ Decorative Marbles ▶ Sand

You can find a Zen garden near temples, or near ancient cities where monks used to stay. Two of the famous places where you can find these gardens are Tokyo and Kyoto. But now, you can even have one inside your home.

Zen gardens are available in many forms like executive Zen sand garden, textured Zen sand garden, Zen dreamer sand garden, desktop garden, and executive walnut garden. You can also make a personalized garden and keep it anywhere you wish.

According to Zen and Feng Shui beliefs, every corner of the house or environment is special, and deserves respect and gratitude. So, get one for yourself and feel the change.