Advantages: Japanese Zen, Bonsai, Disadvantages: Would've been better when dry!
...only ever seen bits of Japanese gardens in the UK in parts of garden displays and never a full pure Japanese garden. It's a beautiful peaceful tranquil space where you could spend hours walking round, sitting, admiring the beautiful scenery and plants. I took over 100 photos while I was in the garden; they are on my website if anyone is interested. The Japanese Garden and Bonsai Nursery is signposted from the A3059, the main road into Newquay from ... ...dragons, and stones, books on Japanese culture, as well as Bonsai! It's open everyday 10am till 6pm and is £3.50 for adults and £1.50 for children to enter the garden. You enter the garden by the Waterfall with some beautiful Buddha statues, and works you're way round, you're allowed to go randomly round the garden, there's no set route for you to follow, but you seem to enter further in and it seems to goes on forever. There are a few seating areas ...
wileycat 19.10.2009
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Advantages: Peace & Tranquility, Inspiring. Disadvantages: To me... none To others? Too quiet perhaps?
...you like the tranquillity of Japanese gardens, the Japanese Zen Garden, situated in the village of St. Mawgan, nr Newqay is the place to visit. Having been a Zen practitioner for the past 25 years, I found this garden exudes a peace and tranquillity that usually takes an hour of zazen (Zen meditation aimed at stilling the mind, transcending the "chattering mind", and becoming at-one with the self) to produce. The layout of plants, rocks and various ... ...traditional Japanese pagodas, really helps the visitor to just "be" in the present moment leaving behind the stresses and strains of everyday life. The Zen garden itself, a "sea" of stone chippings that flow around larger rocks, is particularly attractive to those of us who like to focus their mind in the Zen Buddhist tradition. The raking of the chippings is done every day with a spirit of mindfulness and I could not help but "tune" in to the peace ...
derek-j-a 02.05.2005
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