Group of rocks from the southeastern corner of the map
Whenever I look at the granite rocks sticking out above the surface of the Winnipeg River
near the Pinawa bridge, they remind me of the Rock Garden of the Zen Buddhist
temple Ryoan in the city of Kyoto, Japan. Several photos of this garden were supposed
to appear in another, third, window (if nothing appeared for whatever reason, click on
Show Ryoan in the menu on the right;
if that had no effect, click here).
According to one of several interpretations, this garden represents a model of
the world having the power to inspire people to meditate about life.
It seems to me as if the nature used the Rock Garden of Kyoto as a blueprint
for the placement of the rocks sticking out from the Winnipeg River. The group
of rocks shown on this page reminds me the most of the model of the world perfected for
centuries by Buddhist monks in the Ryoanji temple.
These pictures were taken in a short period of 10 days. The same place in the
river looks different each time, depending on the time of the day and the
season of the year, on the amount of sunlight, on the extent and type of the
cloud cover, or on the direction and speed of wind. It is not easy to catch it
all well in photographs, the reality is usually even more beautiful.
Note, how much mutually different are also the pictures of the same Rock Garden
in the Ryoanji window taken by
different people under apparently different atmospheric conditions.
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