2007-05-19 10:16:49 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Compasionate Practice of Topiary, like maintaining Japanese motor bikes*, requires great peace of mind.
Instead of brutally cutting and pruning the plants, practitioners of CPT stand for hours, talking, persuading, cajoling their trees to change shape. Mood music, carefully placed wind chimes and even incense can be used to intensify the emotional reactions of the plants.
Real experts are able so to motivate vegetation that trees will even change colour.
Without doubt, the greatest expert of all time was Maddigan Feldensbaum of Lower Downham. His masterpiece, two trees which he persuaded to grow together into an arch and to change colour to appear like a perfect rainbow, is still spoken of with awe to this day.
Very few practitioners of CPT are working now. Our modern pace of life is just too great.
Jon C
* See Zen And The Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig.
2007-05-19 17:12:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is that what you meant to say? I don't think of topiary as compassionate.
2007-05-19 10:20:18 · answer #2 · answered by Ms. Jo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You mean, like, bonsai?
I don't know that there's anything all that spiritual about topiaries, but bonsai is fairly spiritual, I suppose. You have to think hard about how to design the little tree so it mimics a real tree.
2007-05-19 10:19:55 · answer #3 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Compassionate ... topiary?
You mean trimming hedges to look like bunnies and piggies?
Pffft.
2007-05-19 10:19:47 · answer #4 · answered by Stuart 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Topiary is cruel == forcing trees and shrubs into unnatural shapes. Oh woe! Where are the anti-topiarists when you need them?
2007-05-19 10:20:46 · answer #5 · answered by Resident Heretic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Throw a poision bomb in the room so everyone evacuates the hotel, then once everyone is out, wait 3-6 hours till the poison goes away, and by then other people have probably answered the question.
2007-05-19 10:19:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You wot? Is this where you think about cutting a box hedge but don't do it because it would hurt it's feelings. Hmm, New Age Hippies, hedge huggers, not tree huggers, well silly huggers.
2007-05-19 10:20:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its that all about talking to your plants, rubbing them with oils, understanding how they grow, loving them and caring for them. Being compassionate for the needs including water, food ect....
2007-05-19 10:20:28 · answer #8 · answered by confused 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Make sure there's no small animals hiding in the bush you're about to trim. That's good karma!
2007-05-19 10:21:13 · answer #9 · answered by Lobster 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
looking for leaves
2007-05-19 10:18:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋