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LESSON 72 PURE LAND PART II  28 10 2010 FREE ONLINE eNālandā Research and Practice UNIVERSITY

Anyone Can Attain Ultimate Bliss Just Visit:http://sarvajan.ambedkar.org

Born out of concern for all beings. - Buddha

BUDDHA (EDUCATE)!                     DHAMMA (MEDITATE)!                   SANGHA (ORGANISE)!

WISDOM       IS    POWER

Awakened One Shows the Path to Attain Ultimate Bliss

COMPUTER IS AN ENTERTAINMENT INSTRUMENT!

INTERNET!

IS

ENTERTAINMENT NET!

TO BE MOST APPROPRIATE!

Using such an instrument

The Free ONLINE e-Nālandā Research and Practice University has been re-organized to function through the following Schools of Learning :

Buddha’s Sangha Practiced His Dhamma Free of cost, hence the Free- e-Nālandā Research and Practice University follows suit

As the Original Nālandā University did not offer any Degree, so also the Free  e-Nālandā Research and Practice University.

The teachings of Buddha are eternal, but even then Buddha did not proclaim them to be infallible. The religion of Buddha has the capacity to change according to times, a quality which no other religion can claim to have…Now what is the basis of Buddhism? If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion.

§  Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar , Indian scholar, philosopher and architect of Constitution of India, in his writing and speeches

I.
KAMMA

REBIRTH

AWAKEN-NESS 

BUDDHA

THUS COME ONE

DHAMMA

II.
ARHAT

FOUR HOLY TRUTHS

EIGHTFOLD PATH

TWELVEFOLD CONDITIONED ARISING

BODHISATTVA

PARAMITA

SIX PARAMITAS

III.

SIX SPIRITUAL POWERS

SIX PATHS OF REBIRTH

TEN DHARMA REALMS

FIVE SKANDHAS

EIGHTEEN REALMS

FIVE MORAL PRECEPTS

IV.

MEDITATION

MINDFULNESS

FOUR APPLICATIONS OF MINDFULNESS

LOTUS POSTURE

SAMADHI

CHAN SCHOOL

FOUR JHANAS

FOUR FORMLESS REALMS

V.

FIVE TYPES OF BUDDHIST STUDY AND PRACTICE

MAHAYANA AND HINAYANA COMPARED

PURE LAND

BUDDHA RECITATION

EIGHT CONSCIOUSNESSES

ONE HUNDRED DHARMAS

EMPTINESS

VI.

DEMON

LINEAGE

with

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Level II: Buddhist Studies

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Level IV: Once - Returner

Level V: Non-Returner
Level VI: Arhat

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alchemy,

and

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International Relations and Peace Studies;

Business Management in relation to Public Policy and Development Studies;

Languages and Literature;

and Ecology and Environmental Studies

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PURE LAND PART II

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 Buddha Maitreya (pronounced ‘My-treeya’), a spiritual teacher and creator of this wonderful space.

There is now a Pureland Japanese Garden website, which contains some of the information explained here, and additional details besides.

The Pureland Japanese Garden, and the teachings and sessions provided by Buddha Maitreya, present a wonderful opportunity to bring spirituality and enlightenment into organisational learning and development. Spirituality and business - or love and business - might not seem an obvious ‘fit’ according to traditional thinking, however, we live in enlightened times. More and more people are seeking a new meaning from life and work. So there are increasingly significant connections between the ideas of spiritual peace, and what people want from their work and life beyond work. Pureland, based in the English East Midlands close to Newark Nottinghamshire, and Buddha Maitreya, offer a wonderful way to make these connections real.

The Pureland garden reflects Maitreya’s approach to meditation and philosophy, in which he teaches self-awareness, peace, and harmony with nature.

Buddha Maitreya acquired the land in 1973. It was then one and a half acres of flat wasteland - the site of an old farm house.

Maitreya has since transformed the space into an extraordinary venue, for people who seek peace and well-being, to discover more about themselves, or for others who simply enjoy visiting beautiful gardens.

The pictures convey a little of the Pureland experience. Visit the garden, or arrange a session for yourself or your team, with Buddha Maitreya, and discover for yourself the wonder of this special place, and this special teacher.

For those too distant to reach the Pureland venue, you might instead consider asking Buddha Maitreya to visit you, to teach relaxation and meditation, and/or maybe to give his talk and slide show about this beautiful Japanese garden and how it was created.

 

pureland japanese garden views

pureland japanese garden

Traditional Japanese garden elements combine to create a special peaceful space.

pureland japanese garden

Beautiful ponds, bridges, reeds, lillies and carp, and the sound of gently flowing waterfalls

japanese garden meditation centre

Bridges and walkways.

japanese garden meditation centre

Steps and grassy mounds.

pureland japanese garden

The variety of textures, shapes and patterns takes your breath away.

japanese garden meditation centre

japanese garden meditation centre

pureland activities information

Pureland is a maze of seemingly endless features, exquisitely crafted, and immaculately maintained. The story of the garden’s construction, from disused farmland into a stunning garden, over many years, and virtually single-handedly by Buddha Maitreya is remarkable in itself.

Maitreya’s slideshow of the garden through the seasons is an absolute wonder to behold.

Buddha Maitreya is a wonderful teacher and host. In his company you feel uplifted and centred. People who possess such wisdom and calm, plus the ability to transfer a genuine sense of peace and serenity to others, are extremely rare.

He offers meditation classes, tea ceremonies, and friendly, very reasonably-priced hospitality.

Activities at Pureland include:

  • individual relaxation and meditation tuition
  • individual consultation
  • regular monthly meetings at which Maitreya teaches his simple ‘pure meditation’ approach to inner peace
  • group relaxation and meditation sessions
  • Japanese garden viewings - from the last weekend in March to the last weekend in October
  • lantern lit evening garden viewings - Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays during August and September, 7pm - 10pm
  • Japanese tea ceremonies - for up to five people
  • group visits to the garden - available day or evening by appointment

Activities other than garden viewings generally include food and/or afternoon tea, which is available separately if required, and highly recommended when viewing the garden. (You don’t have to have an interest in religion and peace and love to view the garden - many people come to Pureland simply to see the Japanese garden.)

Please bear in mind that Pureland is not a large commercial concern. Do not expect the venue to be like a modern conference facility. The meditation centre is basically Maitreya’s house and the tea-room for visitors. The meditation centre - house and team-room - accommodates up to fifteen visitors. Of course there is a lot more room outside.

Pureland’s appeal lies in its simple beauty, the richness and tranquility of the garden, and the wisdom and teaching of Buddha Maitreya.

Pureland Japanese Garden and Meditation Centre is based in North Clifton, Nottinghamshire, England, just off the A1133 road, half way between Newark and Gainsborough and about 12 miles from each. Pureland is signposted from the main road.

There is ample car parking space.

To make a booking for a lecture, relaxation, meditation or a group visit contact Buddha Maitreya.

Buddha Maitreya is also available to visit you to give talks on higher self-awareness, meditation and meditation guidance.

Maitreya offers a wonderful slideshow presentation (35mm slide projector required) and talks about the creation of the Pureland Japanese garden.

Buddha Maitreya also offers talks and classes in Haiku poetry.

To enquire about visiting Pureland, or Buddha Maitreya’s availability for external talks, meditation and relaxation sessions, slide-show, etc, telephone: 01777 228567, or from outside the UK +44 (0) 1777 228567.

Pureland Japanese Garden and Meditation Centre 
North Clifton 
Near Newark 
Nottinghamshire 
NG23 7AT

 

 

buddha maitreya

Maitreya was born and raised in Handa, near Nagoya, in Japan. From an early age he sought to find truth, and attained enlightenment through meditation, which he then followed through teaching and sharing with others. He completed a Masters degree in Buddhist Theology, and for a while afterwards lived the life of a Zen Buddhist monk. His experiences as a Zen Buddhist monk led him to feel that monastic existence was too harsh and inflexible for modern teaching and application of meditation and Buddhist ideas. Maitreya left Japan and travelled to Thailand, India and Nepal, where he taught meditation for several years. On the invitation of a friend Maitreya visited England, where he began teaching and lecturing at various English universities, including Cambridge, Reading and Lancaster. While visiting Nottingham Maitreya learned of the old pig-farm property for sale in North Clifton, which he decided would be a good base from which to teach meditation, and in 1973 Pureland meditation centre was born.

Maitreya began the serious work of creating the Pureland Japanese garden in 1980. He had no previous gardening or agricultural experience. The flat featureless land was re-shaped into small hills around a newly dug central pond. Large boulders were brought in from a Derbyshire quarry, which helped form the winding paths and walkways. Elements were positioned harmoniously, and to reflect Maitreya’s philosophical ideals. Maitreya completed most of the work by hand over many years.

At the core of Maitreya’s philosophy are the following principles:

  • Self-awareness.
  • Harmony with nature.
  • Peace - the most important thing in our life.
  • Meditation provides you with peace, and also lets you be in touch with your inner self.
  • The purpose of life for human beings is not just to pursue one’s ‘wordly’ life, but more importantly to realise one’s True Self.
  • Life is for us to evolve from ‘ego’ existence become to Self Awakened.
  • Learning meditation enables us to become Self Awakened.

 

Maitreya teaches his own form of ‘Pure Meditation’ .

His teaching is accessible to all.

Maitreya’s teachings are simple and aim to provide a direct path to fulfil the purpose of life, namely ‘Self Realisation’, and for all people to contribute to the ‘Higher Evolution’ of mankind.

“Not only the cherry blossom
That has cracked into a smile 
But also my face.”

(Maitreya, 25 April 2006)

Buddha Maitreya’s teachings, and the inspiration and peace offered at Pureland, provide a wonderful perspective for living a good, positive and fulfilled life.

With acknowledgements Buddha Maitreya.

   maitreya haiku

The Japanese characters and written or spoken words are are called ‘kanji’. The word kanji is from kan (the name given to a great part of China thousands of years ago, from where the language and characters were adopted by Japan) and ji, meaning language or words.

Kanji is written from right to left and from top to bottom. The three columns on the right are the cherry blossom haiku verse; the next column of two characters represents Maitreya’s original Japanese name, Koji, which interestingly means ’supervisor of cultivation’; and the final column far left is the date, which traditionally includes the emperor’s name, hence so many characters.

GOOD GOVERNANCE

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Hon’ble Chief Minister Ji orders suspension of seven officers of Chandauli and Sonbhadra districts for showing laxity in various development works

Carry out all-round development of naxal affected areas on war footing

Lucknow: 27 October 2010

The Hon’ble Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Ms. Mayawati ji ordered

immediate suspension of seven officers of various departments for

showing laxity in implementation of various schemes/ programmes

related with the forest, public works, rural development, education, social

welfare, medical and energy departments being carried out for the

development of SC/ST and other poor sections living in Chandauli and

Sonbhadra districts of the State. She directed the officers to ensure rapid

development of these districts so that tribal and forest dwellers got its

benefits and they were not allured towards naxalism.

On the directives of the Hon’ble Chief Minister Ji, the Principal

Secretary Public Works Mr. Ravindra Singh, Principal Secretary Forest Mr.

Chanchal Kumar Tiwari, Principal Secretary Social Welfare Mr. Balvindra

Kumar and Secretary Rural Development Mr. Manoj Kumar Singh

undertook extensive tour of the Chandauli and Sonbhadra on October 23

and 24 last and conducted spot verification of various schemes and

development works being carried out in these districts. Thereafter, they

submitted their inspection report to the C.M.

Hon’ble Ms. Mayawati Ji reviewed this report at a high-level meeting

held at her official residence and attended by Cabinet Secretary Mr.

Shashank Shekhar Singh, Additional Cabinet Secretary Mr. Net Ram,

Principal Secretary Public Works Mr. Ravindra Singh, Principal Secretary

Home Kunwar Fateh Bahadur, D.G.P. Mr. Karmveer Singh and other

senior officers. After reviewing the report, she took some important

decisions and gave directives to the officers of the related departments.

The Hon’ble Chief Minister Ji ordered immediate suspension of

divisional forest officer (DFO) and ranger of Obra for showing

carelessness in distribution of

Patta of forest land and for tampering/over

writing the documents without getting permission from the competent

authorities. She also directed the officers to conduct departmental inquiry

against them. She ordered immediate suspension of the superintending

engineer of P.W.D. Mirzapur for showing laxity in his works. She further

ordered suspension of the BDOs of Sonbhadra district Mr. Rajesh Yadav

and Mr. Sanjai Pandey, as a lot of complaints of serious financial

irregularities had been lodged against them. She also ordered that

departmental action should be taken against them. She ordered action

under Prevention of Corruption Act against Gram Panchayat Adhikari Mr.

Rajesh Dubey. Besides, the C.M.O. Chanduali, on the directives of the

C.M., has been suspended with immediate effect and departmental action

has also been initiated against him.

The Hon’ble Chief Minister Ji directed the officers to ensure that the

Naib Tehsildar conducted measuring of land under the supervision of the

new committee formed for the purpose of Pattas under the Chairmanship

of the Dy. Collector. Besides, she also directed that the GPRS technology

should also be used to provide a computerised print of the patta along

with the map.

The Hon’ble Chief Minister ji directed the officers that about 7000

petty cases pending in these districts should be withdrawn after getting

them examined/approved from the competent level. She said that if the

same could not the withdrawn then they should be disposed of through

Lok Adalats. She ordered that the half of the royalty of the Tendu Patta

should be distributed among the Tendu Patta labourers. Likewise, she

directed that the registration and account opening action for the JFMC

(Joint Forest Management Committees) should be completed by 15

November 2010. She directed the officers that quick decision should be

taken for transfer of land for community works within the two days of

receiving the proposal from district level.

The Hon’ble C.M. Ji directed the officers of the P.W.D. to ensure

that overloading of trucks was controlled through its contractors and the

Transport and Home Departments should take action against other

departments, so that road damage through overloading could be checked.

She ordered third party monitoring of the construction of the link roads

being constructed by the P.W.D. in the Sonbhadra district at a cost of Rs.

500 crore, so that their quality could be ensured. She said that the

P.W.D. had been carrying out various development works of about Rs.

500 crore in Sonbhadra district. Therefore, it was necessary to create the

post of superintending engineer there.

The Hon’ble Chief Minister Ji said that one third of the mineral areas

of the naxal affected districts should be allotted to self help groups

through a notification issued on 29 Jan 2010. In such groups, one third

members of SC/ST and castes like Mallah, Dheemar etc. traditionally

involved in these works should be included. She said that effective

implementation of it should be ensured. She directed the officers to

appoint 10 each land conservation inspectors and junior engineers of the

land conservation and irrigation department respectively in the

development blocks of both the districts on deputation, so that the quality

of the works being carried out in Sonbhadra and Chanduali districts under

MNREGA could be ensured. She said that if a cluster of five houses was

situated in a separate area then a handpump should be installed there.

The Hon’ble C.M. Ji directed that the land and water conservation

works should be carried out in an organised manner and all the deprived

families should be provided 100 day’s employment under MNREGA by

March 2011. Besides, she ordered that the lands should be made fertile of

at least 10 Patta holders of every gram panchayat (which included forest

patta holders) whose land was infertile and the Rural Development

Department should develop irrigation facility by March 2011.

The Hon’ble Chief Minister Ji directed the officers to appoint

teachers in all the colleges of Sonbhadra, where teachers were not posted

within a month and asked them to appoint 6000 teacher by June 2011.

She directed that the appointment/posting against all the vacancies of

Shiksha Mitra in Sonbhadra, Chandauli and Mirzapur districts should be

made immediately. Besides, she directed the Education Department to

ensure cent per cent presence of teachers in the colleges and action

should be taken against those absent. She directed the Social Welfare

Department to request the GOI to relax the condition of the 75 years

proof for providing land patta of Forest Department to the people of the

SC. She directed that two boys/girls ashram system schools/eklavya

schools should be established in Chandauli and four such schools should

be set up in Sonbhadra district. Besides, she also sanctioned 6000

proposals of widow pension for Sonbhadra district and 3000 old age

pension proposals for Chandauli district.

The Hon’ble C.M. Ji ordered immediate suspension of C.M.O.

Chandauli for mismanagement of Naugarh CHC and also ordered officers

to take departmental action against him. She directed Principal Secretary

Medical & Health and Family Welfare to visit both the districts and

streamline the arrangements at the hospitals himself. She directed

intensive monitoring of the distribution of medicines being distributed by

mobile medical unit and also the treatment being undertaken by it.

Reviewing the works of the Energy Department, she directed that the

remaining electrification works of the 46 Ambedkar Villages selected for

the year 2009-10 should be completed by 31 December 2010. She said

that the decision taken regarding 104 Ambedkar Villages, in which works

had to be carried out through NEDA, should be reviewed.

The Hon’ble Chief Minister Ji said that the State Government did not

view naxalism as a law and order problem but it viewed the same as

social problem. Keeping this in view, all the villages of the naxal affected

areas had been declared as Ambedkar villages and serious efforts were

being made for their all-round development. She said that the State

Government had issued authority letters of about 10,000 pattas under

the ST and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest

Rights) Act.

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Third phase of Bihar elections - Factfile


The third of the six phases of the month-long elections to the Bihar state assembly is to be held Thursday. The following is a factfile for the third phase:

Number of assembly constituencies going to polls - 48

Total voters - 10,376,022 (5,604,851 men and 4,771,171 women)

Total number of candidates - 785

Total number of woman candidates - 65

Assembly constituency with maximum candidates - Mahua (31 candidates)

Assembly constituency with minimum candidates - Raxual (7 candidates)

Party-wise list of candidates - Bahujan Samaj Party (48), Bharatiya Janata Party (24), Communist Party India (10), Communist Party of India-Marxist (5), Congress (48), Nationalist Congress Party (38), Janata Dal-United (24), Rashtriya Janata Dal (35) and other parties (186).

Independent candidates - 354

Electronic voting machines to be used - 28,616

Largest assembly constituency area-wise - Valmiki Nagar

Largest assembly constituency voter-wise - Raghopur

Smallest assembly constituency voter-wise - Kesaria

 

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