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ParadisePlainSightParadise in Plain Sight: Lessons from a Zen Garden by Karen Maezen Miller. New World Library, 192 pp, $15.95 

Karen Maezen Miller, a Zen Buddhist priest at the Hazy Moon Zen Center in Los Angeles, bought a house surrounded by a neglected, century-old Zen garden when she and her husband moved to California in 1997.  Working through lessons in gardening and Zen thought, she ties together threads of meaning and awareness in this memoir of the years spent restoring and tending her paradise.  Have a look at this video to find a glimpse of life in the garden: Paradise in Plain Sight

Miller eloquently describes a realization with which many gardeners can identify, writing:

I began to garden.  I got scratched, tired, and dirty. I broke my fingernails and ruined my shoes.  I yanked out what I could have kept and put in more of what I didn’t need.  I pouted and wept, cursing the enormity of the task.  I was resentful and unappreciative.  But when I ventured afield, sidelined by things that seemed much more entertaining or important, I always came back to this patch of patient earth.  Time after time, I realized that everything I want or need – the living truth of life, love, beauty,  purpose, and peace – is taught to me right here, no farther away than the ground beneath my feet.

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