They looked as if they had been lying there on the beds of moss and ferns for centuries. "At each turn in the path, Aritomo drew my attention to an arrangement of rocks, an unusual sculpture, or a stone lantern. "This spot where you sit, this is the starting point.this is the place where the first pebble breaks the surface of the water." "Emptiness: it appealed to me, the possibility of ridding myself of everything I had seen and heard and lived through." The earliest gardeners in Japan were monks, recreating the dream of heaven on earth in the monastery grounds. "The girl who had once walked in the gardens of Kyoto with her sister," Aritomo said, peering into my eyes as though searching for a pebble he had dropped into the bottom of a pond, "the girl, is she still there?" Aritomo refuses, but agrees to take Yun Ling as an apprentice so that she can learn to make the garden herself.
Yun Ling asks Aritomo to create a garden in memory of her sister who died in the camps yet loved the Temple Gardens of Kyoto. There, Yun Ling Teo, a survivor of a Japanese prison camp, meets Nakamura Aritomo, once the gardener for the Emperor of Japan. The air had a herbal undertone, more a flavor than a scent." Moving between waist-high bushes, workers plucked the leaves with voracious fingers, throwing fistfuls of them over their shoulders into rattan baskets strapped to their backs. The story is set in the highlands of Malaya where "Tea bushes clad the hillsides, shaped into box hedges by decades of picking. As in all gardens, there is death and decay, but above all there is beauty and, in the end, a sense of moving into a place of perfect stillness and balance. It is a story about remembering, and a story about forgetting. This is the story of a garden and of the man and woman who made the garden.
It has to make you appreciate the impermanence of everything in life.that point in time just as the last leaf is about to drop, as the remaining petal is about to fall that captures everything beautiful and sorrowful about life." It should change your heart, sadden it, uplift it.
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