Man "cultured" his mind with the sophistication of what is acceptably correct. He will fight for it, exhaust his resources to achieve it, others, perhaps will die for what is thought to be correct. Paradoxically, what is correct did not result into peace. There are side effects that proved to be destructive.

Sadly, "what is correct" seeped even into man's supposedly refuge. His place called home is not spared from the destruction. Homes are not spared from stressful argumentation inside. Sadly, the skills of argumentation is a necessary element of what is correct, the noise is created is taken for granted.

The Talisay Ayala North Point's (ANP) did not sit in the fence. A 3,500 square meter Sadhana Garden was built calling ANP homeowners to a life characterized by the simplicity of silence. ANP's Sadhana Garden is teeming with trees, flora and fauna and an ambiance where the low monotone sound of water is heard. Though meant to be a sanctuary, it is rather an 'exclamation' that the 'destruction of correct' must be reversed.

Rooted in the Sanskrit word 'Sidh' or 'to be complete' in the English language, Sadhana Garden was created where ANP homeowners can walk barefoot and experience certain pain. To walk barefoot does not have any religious connotation; Sadhana Garden was not created as some sort of an exotic hiding place for the ascetics. Walking barefoot, however, in the Garden's perfectly trimmed grass surrounded by the silence of vegetation around is very symbolic of what the mind needs to absorb other than what civilization taught.

Certain pain felt while barefoot in Sadhana Garden is very symbolic that the destruction man bought to this world is irreversible. From the pain of the feet upwards, however, man has to learn that beauty had remained admist the daily bombardment of compound stress.

Until man learns to balance pain and beauty, total degradation is hastened. Ayala North Point's Sadhana Garden is a contribution, a message in itself. To be intimate with nature, the mind is so impeded with intellectual limitation and conceptual abstraction begins to realize that simplicity is still the greatest virtue.

Ayala North Point's Sidhana Garden is not a call to retire but a practice to a life of "Sadh competeness," a life of pain conquered by peace.

Come to Ayala North Point in Talisay City, Negros Occidental.