This is to be the secondary stone group in the garden, but this could easily be a garden by it's self. Shoin garden style is many interconnecting groups and individual stones and trees. Nothing is put down without a purpose. Each stone forms groups or lines linking other groups.
This group is actually made from two groups, the higher stones are complimented by three lower stones in the foreground a number of other stones are positioned around them as balance and tension. Dogen wrote, "Mountains and waters are the actualization of the ancient Buddha way. Each abiding in it's expression, realizes completeness". Can you show your original face, the face of the mountain before mountain was born? Can you see Mountains as Dragons and fish see water?
It's not as people suppose just that Zen has some environmental ethic. That's there, it's also functioning beyond an ethic, beyond the context of you-me, here-now, Time-being. But out of that comes the True ethic beyond opinion and relativity.
