The garden at Metta Vihara is a mobius 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 forgo 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