The garden at Metta Vihara is a Möbius strip
Winding tangent arcs through flower beds
A dynamic regenerative balance
Opposites fold into one another

The eco spaceship is about to take off
It’s so real, it’s unreal

The retreat centre sits amidst Dutch fields
Windfarms nearby
megalithic steel giants
gathering renewable energy

Artifice + “nature” = True Nature

Many hands reach into the earth
They turn the compost,
where decay and birth unite

Peaceful, co-operative idealists
work in harmony with the elements

Watering the plants
while practicing the Metta Bhavana
A torrent of love
streams forth from the heart

Raindrops gathered in the well
hydrate the soil

Cornfields define a natural edge
Porous cell boundary

Letting go of control
enables contact with the source

A butterfly with flourishes of orange and white
flutters among the flowers
Grace defies gravity

I greet a mosquito, which draws blood from my toe
A fellow being needs nourishment
I forego aversion

Solar eclipse –
Heavenly bodies changing places

The moon blocks the sun’s rays

A planet in peril
A lunar period

But the luminosity of young gardeners shines forth