When you look at the landscaping here imagine that it was once
a flat field full of cattle.
Every hill was made from the earth of the ponds.
Every path cut provided a mould for a bridge.
Each feature connected to every other one.
No energy was wasted, and the only gardening tools,
spades, rakes, shears and lengths of timber to lever bridges into place.
Wind and the water have been allowed to
find a natural way through the spaces.
The garden is a living extension of elemental potential.
The design, an understanding of simple
The design, an understanding of simple
Self-actualisation by the gardener.
On a visit we took photographs.
Over tea, Sensei Maitreya asked if we would like a photograph of the entire garden.
We were surprised - we thought we had it covered from every angle.
Showing us to the car, Sensei stopped very still and looked out.
We followed his point of view and the entire garden appeared as if framed.
This had been his first view of the space when it was still a patch of scrubland
littered with old farm equipment.
He did not arrive with a vision to impose.
The picture was all there and always was.
The space was always there.
No matter its manifestation.
No matter - just energy, potential and its own inherent nature.
Sensei redirected the energy already there; simply redistributing it using natural forces.
He did not arrive with a vision to impose.
The picture was all there and always was.
The space was always there.
No matter its manifestation.
No matter - just energy, potential and its own inherent nature.
Sensei redirected the energy already there; simply redistributing it using natural forces.
He has removed nothing. It has all been gently nudged up, down or sideways.
No lorries have burnt carbon carting waste away. Nothing has been brought in that could not be carried by one person.
Everything already existed in the space, whether bricks, stones.
Discarded farm equipment was recycled.
No lorries have burnt carbon carting waste away. Nothing has been brought in that could not be carried by one person.
Everything already existed in the space, whether bricks, stones.
Discarded farm equipment was recycled.
Maitreya has negotiated with what is there by its nature and incorporated what might be allowed by artifice. He uses his own natural tendency to constrain nature's anarchy but not to tame it.
It is not his to tame.
The space does not provide answers. There are no answers.
Pureland helps clarify which of the questions are about Monkey mind
and which are about pure mind.
Constrain and redirect your nature - it is its own master and cannot be tamed.
This is the message of chasing the bull.
and which are about pure mind.
Constrain and redirect your nature - it is its own master and cannot be tamed.
This is the message of chasing the bull.
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