Ross Lamond

Wondrous Little Character Called Chi (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Understanding something about Yin and Yang remains so difficult. My experiences of fifteen years study and application of the two in gardening convinced me their relationship with each other remain very important to a garden's continued health and stability. Yin and Yang are pivotal upon which all things are dependent. Trees, shrubs, birds and insects, the weather, ourselves, whatever become compositions of Yin and Yang.
I realised gardens can become overly Yin or Yang, yet harmony becomes a product when they are at peace with each other, and as such their blending create a garden's naturalness.
There is something else out there influencing and reacting with Yin and Yang to give a garden its 'life'. It's a 'life-force' energy recognised by ancient Chinese. They described it as Qi. In the west, Qi has become more or less known as Chi. It is this energy I became attached to.
Chi stemmed from Yin and Yang reaction and that becomes rather confusing and bewildering. I for one became bewildered in understanding their relationships. I just accepted the explanations of those ancient Chinese because they were great observers of their surroundings and wanted to live in contentment with them. They cultivated the Chi of a place so its energy remained imbibing and auspicious. An uplifting energy for continued health, happiness and prosperity.
I realised auspicious Chi could be harvested, if that's the right word. We as gardeners could create surroundings that encourage its auspiciousness, and as such, empower what lives within.
But, how do I to translate something of Chi's mystic and charm to the everyday gardener? I thought I could take a journey with Chi and let it tell me something of its influence and character, but also its unsettledness and destruction. For Chi has moods and remains a product of change alongside time; time and change guiding its presence and influence, and remaining quite complex and confusing as it does.
I recalled spending a few days staying with my niece and family at their pleasant home (and neighbourhood) at East Lindfield in Sydney and thought I'd create a wondrous little character, (Me Chi) to take me for a wander within some of the suburb's gardens and neighbourhood, and in doing so, it could relate something of our relationship with them.
I found Me Chi's journey quite compelling and suggest it is present in every garden. How we relate and discover it is up to the gardener and those who enter such places. Maybe it's within our imagination, but I'm sure it's something else. Something powerful and influential and governing our presence alongside that of any living creature. Maybe that's the way it should remain!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ross Lamond
• Altersempfehlung: ab 5 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780980758818
• Artikelnr.: 45440643

Autorenporträt

Ross Lamond is the youngest member of a well-known and respected dairy farming family of the New South Wales South Coast, Australia.

He schooled away from home, completing secondary studies at Sydney Grammar School, Sydney. Upon leaving school, Ross returned to the family farm and over a forty year period, gained extensive experience in dairying, beef cattle production, sugarcane, small crop cultivation and horticulture. An ever present interest in the garden naturalised into that of a nurseryman, landscape gardener and grower of in ground trees for landscape.

Concern about environmental issues such as tree decline, dry land salinity and habitat degradation led Ross into external studies in Environment at Mitchell College of Advanced Education at Bathurst, followed by post graduate studies in Urban and Regional planning at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane.

A chance reading of a Feng Shui publication in 1998, introduced Ross to Feng Shui and its influence on our lives and surroundings. He applied some of its principles into the garden and developed his own interpretation of Feng Shui garnished through personal experience and observation. The interest has led Ross into a journey of self-discovery including that of nature, environmentalism and spirituality. It's an ever growing interest.

Ross lives by himself, has four grown up children, and likes to travel and garden and write about his experiences and observations.