The more complex and challenging the world becomes the more we seem to seek sanctuary in our gardens. Years of austerity and conflict have unsettled us and increasingly led us to look to gardens or beautiful natural places to take refuge, relax, and find peace of mind.
In this lecture, Alan Clements, creator of the Cascades meditation garden near Matlock, will explore our interest in gardening and the deeper satisfaction that we can get from creating our own special natural sacred space.
Reviewing Chinese and Japanese gardens from his own personal experience and some of the principles underlying these oriental gardens, Taoism and Feng Shui are briefly reviewed. Alan examines his own gardens in the light of Feng Shui and he explains how he has attempted to create the peace, tranquillity, balance and harmony in his gardens that can only be achieved by working with Nature.
After an international sales and marketing career spanning 40 years with companies that include Unilever and British American Tobacco, and having built up businesses as diverse as printing and packaging, advertising and online marketing with offices in India and China, in retirement Alan has combined his lifelong interests of Buddhist philosophy and gardening. Over the last 25 years has created Cascades Gardens, a meditation garden and Bonsai centre, in the heart of the Peak district in Bonsall, Matlock Derbyshire.
He is Vice President of an international charity, the Tibet Society and the Tibet Relief Fund.
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