Zen garden (karesansui) — dry landscape. 4×6 feet minimum; indoors or outdoors.

Materials

• Landscape edging
• Gravel (white or tan, 1/4 inch)
• 3-7 larger stones
• Landscape fabric
• Rake (fine-toothed)

Steps

1. Outline the space with edging
2. Lay landscape fabric to suppress weeds
3. Place larger stones in asymmetric triangular groupings (odd numbers)
4. Fill around stones with 2 inches of gravel
5. Rake the gravel into patterns — concentric circles around stones, parallel lines elsewhere

Re-rake weekly as a practice. The raking is the meditation.