"[[Koshun Miyamoto]] complimented his fencing teacher’s wife on the beauty of her gravel garden, a square of coarse-grained sand, set off by three stones from a nearby stream that conveyed a “powerful, evocative image of space and balance.” **The fencing teacher’s wife protested that the garden wasn’t complete and wouldn’t be until she could “express the same feeling it has now using only one stone instead of three.”**" ([Location 1384](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01A6EQFZ8&location=1384)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[essentialism]], [[zen]], [[frugality]], **Source** -- [[20250423082057 - B - Let My People Go Surfing]]