Outer and Inner Garden
- Living can be compared as gardening in the space one owns, while seeds, bulbs, plants and fertilizers are brought from the supply stores run by others, or directly collected from nature.
- We like designed gardens, which reflect the choice of flowers and plants which appeal most to us and our methods of attracting animals and insects or keep them away from the garden. These choices are made on the basis of the quality of the soil, the nature of the climate and the presence of the predators who may roam around in the “gardening space”.
- We also choose the species who can withstand the climate -
the sun, wind and cold, snow, rain and heavy outpour. - The “garden” we shall describe here has two parts: One we call “outer garden”, and the other is the “Inner garden”.
- The “outer garden” is made of physical elements and biological life with whom we interact with our senses (vision, sound, taste, smell and touch). We nourish the living world by providing food, water, shelter and loving care and protect them from any damaging environment. It returns back to us the joy of watching the plants shooting with new branches, bearing flowers and fruits, and then passing into a quieter phase before the same cycle may repeat again in the next year.
- The “inner garden” is not bound to this sense bound world. Instead it reflects deeper nature of ourselves. It is built with elements of symbols and artworks which reflect the perspectives with which we may perceive the mystery of life and existence. The inner representation of the garden is not confined to the physical nature of the world, or the biological processes of life. Though it is set up and constructed within the frame of the physical and biological garden, it is transcendental in nature. It represents a garden of ideas and creative thoughts which helps mind to take flight in freedom into realms of consciousness outside the sense-
bound world. In this inner garden one experiences the blooming of the mind beyond the rational and conscious projection of the reality of life. - The “Inner garden” is framed with ideas and symbols which have been used universally in all ages across all cultures of the world. It mostly encompasses the mystery of creation and recurrence of life, evolution, death and life again. It also projects the existence of the invisible realm which manifests as a power of consciousness driving our will and thoughts and evolution of the mind. This “spiral” power provides nourishment for growth and blooming of the mind in different “colours and forms”. One may then harvest the “flowers” and “fruits” of this inner garden in the form of poetic, artistic and musical or other creative activities. In this inner garden seeds are inspirations, bulbs and plants are “species” collected from creative imaginations. The sounds, sights, touch and smell of the sun, wind, water, earth are the fertilizers for these plants to grow and bloom.
- The inner and the outer gardens are not two separate worlds. They are bound in an unity through a universal design of creation which exists in the universe. What appears perceptible is based on an imperceptible realm at its deepest level. What appears imperceptible, at the level of “reality” bound by the senses, exists in all corners of the perceptible world.
- A walk in the “Garden” is a walk through these interconnected parts.
- Here we can hear the symphony of the universe, see the cosmic design unfolds, feel the pulses of mystery which reverberate in the living and non-
living world. With plashing waves, dancing spangles of twinkling light, trembling touch of the leaves, and silent movement of the insects walking over rocky beds, which are billions of years old, we may experience the marvel and wonder of the universe in a tiny spot on Earth, which is the “Garden of Light”. - It is small ... in fact, infinitesimally small. However we wish others will bring their seeds, bulbs and plants from their own garden and make it grow outside its physical boundary. Let the outer and inner garden be a place for walking together in the shore of light, which is so dramatic and beautiful as Sognefjord. Let us talk about different creative realms of the mind including arts, literature, music, philosophy, science of nature and cosmos for example as well as flowers, plant, insects, animals and all the beautiful inner flowers which bloom in every heart. Let us bring nourishment to the flowers and plants we all grow in our own individual inner space.
News from the Garden of Light
- We live in a designed universe which seeks order, harmony and beauty in all. This is the purpose of evolution that occurs everywhere in all things which exist in the universe.
- Everything is entangled together in a whole in an extremely complex way. Whatever occurs in one place has its impact in every other places.
- The universe in its smallest structure reveals the mystery of the whole. The small or large, everything reveals the image of the same cosmic design.
- There exists a power which penetrates all and exists everywhere, which emerges as the “will” in our mind when it manifests in the material world existing in form.
- The expression of the cosmic consciousness as mind in bodily form, reveals to us the phenomenal world which we perceive as “reality” of life.
- The experience of “reality” takes its form depending on the way the mind connects to the cosmic consciousness, which has many layers or levels of transcendence. In the primary level it reveals the world as objects of sensations and feelings related to the need and necessities of physical existence. In the next level it elevates mind to creative sphere of imagination and freedom to restructure the “reality” following one`s will and thoughts. In the next higher level it is pure contemplation, without much participation of the physical body, connecting to the transcendental world without form which belongs to a realm outside time and space.
- To experience the different spheres of the mind, one needs to focus the power of the “will” to connect to the layer of consciousness one desires to experience. For example, to experience the transcendental sphere one needs to empty the mind from the impact of the bodily senses and thoughts. Higher experience of reality comes by emptying the mind when physical world dissolves and the “spiral power” of the “cosmic mind” fills the “void”.
- The experience of journey of one`s life depends on the way one walks across the different realms of the mind in order to connect to the cosmic power at different levels.
- One, who has wandered through different spheres and experienced both the bodily sphere and the realm beyond body and form, knows the unity of all beings and seeks to submit life to the cause of bringing harmony, order and beauty in the world.
- The goal of life is to reach such a “lighted shore” where one can walk freely from one realm to the other -
from bodily sensations appearing with birth to the realm where mind is free from the conditions of birth of the physical body. - Such “aware mind” knows no differences due to birth, race, culture, time and place. Their actions spring from the cosmic realization of the order, harmony and beauty of life and their deeds carry the power of love and compassion for all.
- From the “Garden of Light” thus we wish to spread the news of an “enlightened world”.
How to spend time in the garden?
- Write, do artworks (photography, paintings, sculptures etc.), experiment with music, share philosophical thoughts and knowledge about the science of nature and cosmos, pass on innovative ideas to others in order to build cooperate across different cultural fields with the aim to create a foundation of universal culture etc.
- Study the existence of the “Cosmic Mind”, and the individual mind tied to genes, environments and exposure to information and knowledge.
- Etc.