Garden Tour

My friend, Sam, and i went on a garden tour yesterday--the first of the season. It began at the spectacular garden of a British garden designer. We had barely set foot in the garden before Sam was overwhelmed with its utter neatness. "He's a landscape designer," i said. "He has a crew of gardeners."

The next garden we visited was a small garden around a very small house. "Oh, i spend about 2 hours a day in the garden," Caitlin-the-owner said.

How much time do we want to spend meditating--or gardening--each day? An hour in the morning and an hour in the evening leads to a beautiful garden. If we garden--or meditate--all day every day, as we might at a retreat, we will pull a lot of weeds.

How important is your garden to you? How important is meditation to you? Do the first things first.