Terra-Therapy or, Growing Deep Peace
Gardening not only provides material abundance in the flourishing of plants, it also provides spiritual and nonviolent practices that generate peace. Cultivating a garden teaches the concentration of prayer and other meditative practices, and gardening can ground a person in transience (the inevitab...
| Subtitles: | "Gardening as Social-Spiritual Practice. Special Issue Edited by Johan Roeland" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The University of North Carolina Press
2023
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Cross currents
Year: 2023, Volume: 73, Issue: 4, Pages: 407-419 |
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| Summary: | Gardening not only provides material abundance in the flourishing of plants, it also provides spiritual and nonviolent practices that generate peace. Cultivating a garden teaches the concentration of prayer and other meditative practices, and gardening can ground a person in transience (the inevitability of suffering and death). The embodied encounter with dirt that is gardening suggests a spiritual way beyond purity projects that deny the inherent messiness of experience. Gardening also offers a spiritual kinship that extends beyond the human world, in relationships that allow the remembering of ancestors and teaching respect for the planet. |
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| ISSN: | 1939-3881 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cross currents
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/cro.2023.a923592 |