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motivated us to continue our timber business in a “different way”
This resulted in adjusting the nature of the business and its name to suit. FALLEN TREE TIMBER was the name given 3 years back to the family owned timber business which is in its third generation with the knowledge and expertise of the timber industry passed down over the years.
All our timber material come mainly from naturally fallen trees which we started to collect because we wanted to show that we do not have to destroy forest to get good timber. The logs are collected in an environmentally friendly way and removed from the forest using elephants as to minimize the impact on the surrounding vegetation.
We have established our own network with the help of school teachers in rural areas, village heads and forest department officials to collect data on fallen trees. Government and private gardens are providing continual source of material. We have proudly worked our way since to satisfy all persons who purchased our products.
Our fields include but are not limited to:
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Dry natural edge timber slabs vary in lengths up to 20 ft. long and up to 5 ft wide, in any thickness. Timber slabs are ideal for dinning tables, coffee tables, consoles, beds and head boards, benches, desks, counter tops, bar tops etc. (We not only makes slabs with natural edges we also offer the option of having straight edges.)
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Timber Flooring, decking, paneling material
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Timber & stone accessories like wood stump, timber blocks, solid timber pedestals, solid columns, and stools, wooden balls, side tables in block forms etc. hand made stone balls in various sizes, stone blocks, stone coffee tables & stools
We are based in Sri Lanka. Our services can meet your needs, big or small, wholesale or retail
Buddha’s teaching towards nature Back to Top
The well known Buddhist teaching holds the key to environmental consciousness. Buddhism has something fundamental to say on the environmental issue, because it addresses the basic human attitudes that lie at the heart of our planet's problems.
The root cause of our problems personal and planetary is our view of ourselves as separate, isolated individuals, walled off from the universe around us. This view leads us to see selfishness as necessary. It leads us to put narrow limits on what we see as our responsibility. And it leads us to live a life that is out of harmony with the universe, so that we suffer, and the world suffers with us.
But the Buddhist teaching tells us that this view of ourselves is mistaken. Our idea of separate selihood is a delusion, and a profoundly damaging delusion. We are all part of each other and the world we inhabit, and whenever we harm another being or injure our environment, what we are hurting is ourselves.
In the vision of universal interpenetration, one of the Buddha’s teaching of Conditioned Co-production (pratitya samutpada), we have a basic insight into our relationship with nature.
In this beautiful vision we can begin to connect imaginatively with the mutual interdependence of all processes. Bringing this insight down to earth it becomes clear that by harming nature we are in fact harming ourselves.
Restating this vision of interpenetration in a positive sense, to improve the quality of our lives we need to live in greater harmony with nature.
The Buddhist position, on the other hand, emphasizes a harmonious interaction between ourselves and nature, neither passive nor attempting to dominate.
The Buddha has made it abundantly clear that nature should be un interfered with so that humanity may enjoy its presence, and value for their benefit.
He also preached that all life, including plant life should not be destroyed. Nature is a life giver for humanity. It is man's bounden duty that he should sustain himself at all times through righteous means. He should neither try to subjugate nature or make her his slave, nor should he blindly do any harm to her aesthetic aspects that are in plenty. The Buddha was a complete respecter of nature's beauties.
Buddha was the world's greatest admirer of nature's attractions at the spiritual levels |
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