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concept:heart-of-zenHeart of Zen
The quality of gardens that brings us in touch with the orderly-yet-uncontrollable, wild-yet-cultivated nature of life.
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- The chapter from which all other entities are extracted; it explains how living process, applied repeatedly in exterior space, generates the distinct morphology of gardens.
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- School of Buddhism known for koans and paradoxical teachings; invoked through Huang Po and Lin-chi.
- The spiritual center in a person, the inward point of contact with the Void, the Self, or God, emphasized in Sufi and Zen teachings.
- The Zen concept of a state beyond ego and conceptual thought, equated by Alexander with reaching the I through truly pleasing oneself.
- Contemplative tradition using contradiction and paradox to challenge habitual response patterns; methodological inspiration.
- A Zen meditation technique for interrupting the mind's self-construction and thought generation.
- A state of extreme spiritual simplicity and clarity that living structure must achieve; all extraneous stuff removed.
- A deep, authentic preference that arises from one's true self, not from social conditioning; it converges across people and corresponds to living structure.
- Buddhist school teaching that everything is alive and interconnected, exemplified by the Jewel Net of Indra.