WORDS: JOHN DAISHO LORI
IMAGES, EDITING,VOICE: SANDY STRALLEN

Everything on a boat has a simple purpose.
Everything around a boat has a simple and very direct sensory existence.
​Allowing oneself to surrender to wind and the motion of the ocean and simply breathing fresh ozone is liberating.
Having freed the mind and senses, there is so much more mind-space available to assimilate and learn from these  new experiences.
Being a little bit unsettled, maybe experiencing something entirely new is incredibly good for the heart, soul and brain.
Allow yourself to experience the sensory overload  that comes with sailing a powerful yacht in a stiff breeze. It will refresh and renew your life entirely.
Come with friends, work colleagues, team members or just on your own.
A few days sailing together will open your relationship with yourself and others in new and extraordinarily positive directions you would never have imagined might be possible.

Sandy Strallen - skipper SY Fayaway, 2018.

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North Clifton
Nr. Newark,
Nottinghamshire
NG23 7AT











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 were 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
self-actualisation by the gardener.

On a visit we took digital photographs which we showed Maitreya.
Over tea, Sensei  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 quietly looked out across his landscape.
We followed his point of view and the entire garden suddenly re-appeared renewed as if perfectly framed.

Maitreya told us that 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 had been, the space was  always there just in a different manifestation. No matter - just energy, potential and the inherent nature of the space.

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 on a bike.
Everything already existed in the space, whether bricks, stones, discarded farm equipment.
Everything has had its energy redirected and 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 those which are about Pure mind.

Constrain and redirect your nature within the larger forces over which you have no control -
All and everything is own master and cannot be tamed.

This is the message making a garden, creating a work of art, practicing Yoga and sailing a boat.

http://www.buddhamaitreya.co.uk

​Hold on - let go.

How many things can one do at one time?
How many things can one accomplish at one time?
How many things do we hold in one hand at one time?
How many things do we need to hold in one hand at one time?
How many things can we let go and create more space in our hands?
How much more useful to us is an empty relaxed hand?
How often are we aware that our hands are too full?

Sensei said - when walking, walk, when sitting, sit, above all, do not wobble.