[4] He was ordained into The Triratna Buddhist Order in 1990,[3][4] is now a senior teacher at the LBC[7] and is the former director of Breathing Space, a well-being centre there.
[2][8] Life With Full Attention: a Practical Course in Mindfulness (2009) is an eight-week course "steeped in ancient spiritual teachings, but aimed squarely at modern, secular readers, who are contending with complicated lives.
"[7] Reviewing The Crumb Road (2013) in The Guardian, Sean O'Brien wrote that "Maitreyabandhu is interesting for being one who notices, and for the care he brings to his observations of people, events, places and memories.
"[9] Also in The Guardian, Carol Rumens described "The Man" from The Crumb Road as "Typically, it's a poem which seems to present a reassuringly ordinary and familiar scenario, while slowly making the reader aware that something unusual is going on.
A sequence of lyric poems by Maitreyabandhu "written in different voices to, about and "as" Cézanne", in chronological order, is interleaved with reproductions of Cezanne's paintings.