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I'm not from the USA so not your typical audience but I have worked in Therapy and also Creative Arts especialy gardening all my 75 years. I love the images you use to illustrate your homilies but I do have some criticism about presentation. We don't need to see more than an occasional glimpse of you and I would exchange long pieces to camera for more voice over pictures of gardens that could be static so we sink into the subject and absorb the information more deeply. You could try speaking just a little more slowly that would also change the flow to something less forcefull with longer pauses to slow our pulse rate. Hope this helps attract more people in quest of the knowlege you seek to impart

Oh hey! at 1:30 , that's the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens in Delray Florida! I used to go there all the time back in high school, I love that place so much. I could spot that entrance from a mile away lol

Inspiring....which Japanese garden books would you recommend.

Uma lástima é a descrição ser num ambiente escuro,tétrico, para analisar algo tão sutil como um jardim japonês onde o que predomina é o ver e sentir.😢

A truely inspiring video, thank you for highliting these concepts 😍👌

Beautiful, I appreciate your passion and inspiration and intelligence. I don't know about Japanese culture, tou taught me alot.Thank you for creating intrigue .⛩️🦚

Thanks for the inspiration!

Hi, My name in Mats Hagström I live in Northern California where I have been working on developing my knowledge and skills in horticulture focusing of bonsai and garden trees. It is my goal to spend the next 10+ years developing a forest blending in my bonsai collection. While I’m not completely committed to a pure Japanese formal garden I do plan on incorporating a significant amount if Japanese aesthetic ideas and concepts. I find there is very little English written information on the design and development of Japanese garden trees. I don’t know if you do consulting work but perhaps that might be an idea in the future. I’ve been to Japan once and will be going for a second time in February. This time to explore Kyoto and attending the Kokufu ten. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I look forward to seeing the rest of your videos. Mats H

I love your content! Very inspirational❤ what is the forest name in 9:54 please 🙏🏻

This is a great introduction to the principles! Thank you!

Great video Josh! I would love some photos of these same spots, but with the lush, fresh green of spring.

I love what you are talking about and what you are showing but.. Please stop the music. It is distracting and does not fit with the aesthetic. Sorry but this is meant constructively ❤

Very nice.

Just beautiful and you picked the right music too👍👍👍👍

I live in a studio apartment but i enjoy watching these videos. They are interesting but calming. I can still that some day...😊

Great video! Very informative and I learnt a lot about Japanese gardening principles. Thanks for making.

I have not had that feeling with photography. But i used to play the violin and practised for hours every day. That feeling you spoke of would happen when i was finally playing a piece of music correctly. Because i had mastered the notes and bowstrokes, i was in the music, not thinking, just playing the music. It was wonderful. Thank you for reminding me of that. It has been a long time.

Maples are amazing all year long. Love to see them wet after a rain or in the autumn frost. The flowers in the spring are always stunning.

I've been to the Niagara Falls once. We barely explored before moving on. Wish we had stayed longer. It was before my photography days! ❤

Hi Josh, I stumbled upon your video by chance and felt compelled to reach out. I’m a commercial photographer, but the past few years have been challenging-I’ve lost several close people and, recently, our 2.5-year-old dog. These experiences have shifted my perspective, and I find myself less interested in chasing jobs or competing with younger, low-cost photographers. Consequently, this has led me to reconsider my direction. I’ve always been drawn to simple, evocative black-and-white imagery, reminiscent of classic analog photography. Recently, I enrolled in the BPSOP course Finding Beauty, which has been refreshingly different and inspiring. During a critique, my instructor used three words to describe my work: asymmetry, zen, and poetry. Curious to explore this further, I started researching my new personal style and stumbled upon the concept of “wabi-sabi” photography. While I’m still learning what it truly means, I’m excited to dive deeper and see where it takes me. Thank you for sharing your knowledge of this concept.

I would love to see more on shinto and it’s application in everyday life. This was a great video.

Thank you for opening my mind to the beauty of Shinto and Shizen. I am forever enriched and changed.

Thank you. I’m doing a stroll garden through my property of nine acres. I’m being really careful to get the rocks right and the lanterns. This was a nice video. Thanks for making it.

Nicwe Marc Peter Kean's book Japanese Garden Design is very good about types of paths.

Just a further note I've replied to some commentators. It is important not to take these Japanese principles and 'westernise' them. Zen and Japanese ideas in the West are a Myth. It has been hijacked from the original. Nichiren dictionary reaffirms "The Zen teaching was summarized in these phrases attributed to Bodhidharma: “A separate transmission outside the sutras,” “independent of words or writing,” “directly pointing to the human mind,” In Gassho...

Ni Wa - yes! Pure Place. Wa is harmony...just seen that meaning! Thanks for that!

Oo, I just found this video. I simply love Japanese gardens!💚 Would like to take lessons.🌳 Haven't found any teacher in Sweden yet. Maby I have to go to Japan to learn more.🌺

Amazing Video - thank you for this! :)

Very nice video - the music doesen't work though imho (apart from the shakuhachi!).

Mahalo for the vid. cheehuu

Awesome. saved my life

Thanks, I'm taking pottery classes, and learned how to make Japanese style lanterns last year. I made a couple, and more recently have been inspired to start exploring the forms more. This is a helpful guide.

I don't know how I found you but I'm so glad I did! You've really struck a chord in me and have helped me wake up to a way that I can deepen my Buddhist practice (and get more enjoyment out of photography). I liked and subbed. Happy I found you and hope I found you happy. Namu Amida Butsu.🙏❤

One cannot focus with this intrusive music

Loved it. Thanks for sharing.

Just loose the instrusive irritating music

About 45 seconds into the video I was like Eureka! I have found it. Just the video I wanted. Doumo arigato!

Dang I picked out 3 boulders for my driveway circle garden and they are each individuals. Missing the wa (harmony). I call them The Prima Donnas ( kind of like the Lone Rangers joke from Airheads). I’m just planting 2 small hinoki and a drift rose and a globe spruce. The stones will be the focal point.

Dang I picked out 3 boulders for my driveway circle garden and they are each individuals. Missing the wa (harmony). I call them The Prima Donnas ( kind of like the Lone Rangers joke from Airheads). I’m just planting 2 small hinoki and a drift rose and a globe spruce. The stones will be the focal point.

I walked alone in a forest of coral bark japanese maple trees somewhere near Kyoto in the 1950s. I will never forget the experience

I was looking for the one maple for my garden. Not an easy choice. Finally I found this perfect combination of green and orange in the form of Shishigashira.

Beautiful and relaxing

Thanks

You explained this very well. Thanks.

But do you know about the Japanese cultural concept called *shiitake ga nai* ? It's really life changing.

Love your expertise Josh. I wish Wabi-Sabi could be incorporated in life in general… Being a lover/admirer of old things, fall/autumn, etc. I certainly hope I can incorporate the Wabi-Sabi philosophy (if I may call it that) in my photography. Thank you!

Bravissimo….

In polish language we call it "śreżoga". Try to say this :)

I did not know that there was a word to describe the beauty of the light through the trees.