Meditation Room

Does anyone on here have a meditation room or a special place set aside for alone time and gathering thoughts? Something creative and out of the ordinary? Show us your pics. I'm working on one myself and it will probably be a while before I can show it. At first I was just using my old laptop as a meditation cushion and portable space to unwind and collect thoughts. I could take it anywhere with me. It was a perfect way to use my old friend that didn't work anymore and it was very comfortable to sit on. At least it was until my parents took it from me and destroyed it. It was a comfort to me and I was devastated to lose it. (I have Asperger's Syndrome and some things are really a huge comfort to me in a positive way. Also, there were so many beautiful experiences associated with it that it just felt wonderful to hold it close to me.) I want to find me another one that I can use for my meditation seat so I can have a proper meditation space/Jedi Temple space. I love incense and sensory things. They are helpful. My ideal meditation room would have lots of EL lights, disco lights, visionary art, black lights, plasma lights, bubble lamps, and techno music, and maybe a vibrating pillow to put the laptop on. Weird, but that idea just seems lovely. I did it with the one I had and it was heaven. An Indian Puja Mandir would make an excellent meditation throne as well. Put curtains around it and you have an instant zone out space. So my Jedi friends, what's your meditation space like? Do you think my idea is crazy? I'm like the only one that has such an idea. My parents even thought it was weird that I love to sit on a laptop. But we all are different. :woohoo:

It's not bizarre at all. We all have our own thing and that's perfectly fine! As far as having my own meditation space, no, sadly. I would love one but I do not have the space. Your whole idea sounds great if its what you want; everyone find different things relaxing. My ideal meditation room would be one with a simple water source, like I love fish tanks so I would have a fish tank in there. I would also have wide windows I could crack open to get the fresh smell of outside and some natural light. But this is all my ideal meditation room.
I hope you can make a meditation room!

May The Force be with you,
Competent

Yeah I often meditate here while <doot doot doot> lookin out my back door.

Pipotron V wrote: My ideal meditation room would have lots of EL lights, disco lights, visionary art, black lights, plasma lights, bubble lamps, and techno music, and maybe a vibrating pillow to put the laptop on. Weird, but that idea just seems lovely. I did it with the one I had and it was heaven. An Indian Puja Mandir would make an excellent meditation throne as well. Put curtains around it and you have an instant zone out space. So my Jedi friends, what's your meditation space like? Do you think my idea is crazy?

Sounds great!! I had a room like that, had a lava lamp, dodgy DJ deck setup, couple of bean bags, small tables covered in half melted candles... and it had one of these things (but without the fibres) which shone multicolored lights onto the ceiling!!



Now I meditate everywhere, and just make my living space calm and serene to reinforce the practise.

Adder wrote :

Now I meditate everywhere, and just make my living space calm and serene to reinforce the practise.

I think that we all pass by that : a secret space that we decorate and thereby "dedicate" to meditation ; the incense, the candle wax and images that range from sign to allegory to symbol ...

We almost invariably arrive at what Adder said there at the end : we are ourselves (our bodies and as far as they extend) that "sacred space". Life itself can be a meditation, we just have to "be there" for It.

"A temple is erected there to signify and inspire the miracle of perfect centeredness; for this is the place of the breakthrough into abundance. Someone at this point discovered eternity. Such temples can serve, therefore, as a support for fruitful meditation. ... Or again: a great temple can be established anywhere. Because, finally, the All is everywhere, and anywhere may become the seat of power. Any blade of grass may assume, in myth, the figure of the savior and conduct the questing wandered into the sanctum sanctorum of his own heart."

pg.35 The Hero With A Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell.

What Alex and Adder said reminded me of this.

Thanks everyone, fun thread. While the topic of why meditate and how to get started often rises in the Totjo, it is nice to see it pointed to environment (as in sacred space).

The word blanket keeps coming to mind, lol.

A nuturing outer environment. chosen by the journeyer, which supports the inner journey.

One set of sacred objects are the props which support the body for each form that I may be utilizing. The same is placed in the car for outside meditations.

I don't have any charms in charged with the capacity to be causal, but . . . . that which is around me is pleasing to me.

Yes, my meditation room becomes me. . . .

Alexandre Orion wrote: Adder wrote :

Now I meditate everywhere, and just make my living space calm and serene to reinforce the practise.

I think that we all pass by that : a secret space that we decorate and thereby "dedicate" to meditation ; the incense, the candle wax and images that range from sign to allegory to symbol ...

We almost invariably arrive at what Adder said there at the end : we are ourselves (our bodies and as far as they extend) that "sacred space". Life itself can be a meditation, we just have to "be there" for It.

Damn straight. Though I don't meditate much anymore, if at all. I guess I just feel like I need to DO more. Time seems far more elusive these days.

All of these ideas sound wonderful! And I just knew there wasn't anything stupid or not right about what I like. So why in the world did my parents think so? I don't know. Another good place to meditate would be under a tree in the shade. Back in winter I was looking forward to the time I could just take the laptop outside and find a shady spot and just sit there and chill. It would have been wonderful, but now I won't get to do that for a while. I also thought about all the funny looks I would get if I took it out on a picnic in public. :ohmy: Hey it would provide a comfortable base to sit on rather than hard ground and a blanket. Eventually things should get better. I hope to find another one in a Goodwill store for cheap. Of course it'll probably be one there just for parts and scrap, but that doesn't matter.

As for the room, the Jedi meditation hall and Yoda's quarters would be nice. Put some canopies over those cushions with a couple laptop stands and that would be fun. So awesome looking.


If I could design something, a house modeled after the whole temple would be nice:

The Academy








A dark more ominous space:


A pod meditation room:


Temple:





I probably won't be able to do something this good, but the futuristic high tech look, I like.

this thread is great! i dont have any pictures but there is a place in the woods nearby where i like to go to work out and to meditate - its very nourishing to be in a natural scenery environment for me

any kind of water is also good - fountains or the lake nearby or the ocean, which i was fortunate to have close to me as a child