8/13/2019 Japanese Garden and Meditation Centre http://slidepdf.com/reader/full/japanese-garden-and-meditation-centre 1/10 japanese garden and meditation centre the beautiful Pureland Japanese Garden and Meditation Centre - a special venue for self-discovery, team development, meditation and wellness - or simply to visit the garden The Pureland Japanese Garden and Meditation Centre is a remarkable place. It is a uniquely beautiful garden, and also the home of uddha Maitreya !pronounced "My#treeya"$, a spiritual teacher and creator of this %onderful space. The Pureland Japanese Garden, and the teachings and sessions pro&ided by uddha Maitreya, present a %onderful opportunity to bring spirituality and enlightenment into organisational learning and de&elopment. 'pirituality and business # or lo&e and business # might not seem an ob&ious "fit" according to traditional thinking, ho%e&er, %e li&e in enlightened times. More and more people are seeking a ne% meaning from life and %ork. 'o there are increasingly significant connections bet%een the ideas of spiritual peace, and %hat people %ant from their %ork and life beyond %ork. Pureland, based in the (nglish (ast Midlands close to )e%ark )ottinghamshire, and uddha Maitreya, offer a %onderful %ay to make these connections real. The Pureland garden reflects Maitreya"s approach to meditation and philosophy, in %hich he teaches self#a%areness, peace, and harmony %ith nature. uddha Maitreya acquired the land in *+-. It %as then one and a half acres of flat %asteland # the site of an old farm house. Maitreya has since transformed the space into an etraordinary &enue, for people %ho seek peace and %ell#being, to disco&er more about themsel&es, or for others %ho simply en/oy &isiting beautiful gardens. The pictures con&ey a little of the Pureland eperience. 0isit the garden, or arrange a session for yourself or your team, %ith uddha Maitreya, and disco&er for yourself the %onder of this special place, and this special teacher. 1or those too distant to reach the Pureland &enue, you might instead consider asking uddha Maitreya to &isit you, to teach relaation and meditation, and2or maybe to gi&e his talk and slide sho% about this beautiful Japanese garden and ho% it %as created. pureland japanese garden views *
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the beautiful Pureland Japanese Garden and Meditation
Centre - a special venue for self-discovery, teamdevelopment, meditation and wellness - or simply to visit
the garden
The Pureland Japanese Garden and Meditation Centre is a remarkable place. It is a uniquely
beautiful garden, and also the home of uddha Maitreya !pronounced "My#treeya"$, a spiritual
teacher and creator of this %onderful space.
The Pureland Japanese Garden, and the teachings and sessions pro&ided by uddha Maitreya,
present a %onderful opportunity to bring spirituality and enlightenment into organisational
learning and de&elopment. 'pirituality and business # or lo&e and business # might not seeman ob&ious "fit" according to traditional thinking, ho%e&er, %e li&e in enlightened times. More
and more people are seeking a ne% meaning from life and %ork. 'o there are increasingly
significant connections bet%een the ideas of spiritual peace, and %hat people %ant from their
%ork and life beyond %ork. Pureland, based in the (nglish (ast Midlands close to )e%ark
)ottinghamshire, and uddha Maitreya, offer a %onderful %ay to make these connections
real.
The Pureland garden reflects Maitreya"s approach to meditation and philosophy, in %hich he
teaches self#a%areness, peace, and harmony %ith nature.
uddha Maitreya acquired the land in *+-. It %as then one and a half acres of flat %asteland
# the site of an old farm house.
Maitreya has since transformed the space into an etraordinary &enue, for people %ho seek
peace and %ell#being, to disco&er more about themsel&es, or for others %ho simply en/oy
&isiting beautiful gardens.
The pictures con&ey a little of the Pureland eperience. 0isit the garden, or arrange a session
for yourself or your team, %ith uddha Maitreya, and disco&er for yourself the %onder of this
special place, and this special teacher.
1or those too distant to reach the Pureland &enue, you might instead consider asking uddha
Maitreya to &isit you, to teach relaation and meditation, and2or maybe to gi&e his talk and
slide sho% about this beautiful Japanese garden and ho% it %as created.
Maitreya %as born and raised in 7anda, near )agoya, in Japan. 1rom an early age he soughtto find truth, and attained enlightenment through meditation, %hich he then follo%ed through
teaching and sharing %ith others. 7e completed a Masters degree in uddhist Theology, and
for a %hile after%ards li&ed the life of a en uddhist monk. 7is eperiences as a en
uddhist monk led him to feel that monastic eistence %as too harsh and infleible for
modern teaching and application of meditation and uddhist ideas. Maitreya left Japan and
tra&elled to Thailand, India and )epal, %here he taught meditation for se&eral years. ;n the
in&itation of a friend Maitreya &isited (ngland, %here he began teaching and lecturing at
&arious (nglish uni&ersities, including Cambridge, Deading and Eancaster. Fhile &isiting
)ottingham Maitreya learned of the old pig#farm property for sale in )orth Clifton, %hich he
decided %ould be a good base from %hich to teach meditation, and in *+- Pureland
meditation centre %as born.
Maitreya began the serious %ork of creating the Pureland Japanese garden in *+?<. 7e had no
pre&ious gardening or agricultural eperience. The flat featureless land %as re#shaped into
small hills around a ne%ly dug central pond. Earge boulders %ere brought in from a
>erbyshire quarry, %hich helped form the %inding paths and %alk%ays. (lements %ere
positioned harmoniously, and to reflect Maitreya"s philosophical ideals. Maitreya completed
most of the %ork by hand o&er many years.
8t the core of Maitreya"s philosophy are the follo%ing principles9
• 'elf#a%areness.
• 7armony %ith nature.
• Peace # the most important thing in our life.
• Meditation pro&ides you %ith peace, and also lets you be in touch %ith your inner self.
• The purpose of life for human beings is not /ust to pursue one"s "%ordly" life, but more
importantly to realise one"s True 'elf.
• Eife is for us to e&ol&e from "ego" eistence become to 'elf 8%akened.
• Eearning meditation enables us to become 'elf 8%akened.