If you're comfortable doing so, please post a picture if you like!
I love looking at shrines.
Best,
Laura
Shrine?
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Shrine?
Do you maintain a personal shrine? Is it important or precious you?
If you're comfortable doing so, please post a picture if you like!
I love looking at shrines.
Best,
Laura
If you're comfortable doing so, please post a picture if you like!
I love looking at shrines.
Best,
Laura
Re: Shrine?
If you look at my shrine, your eyes might burn and you might be reborn in a cremation ground practicing on various wrathful buddhas.Ngawang Drolma wrote:Do you maintain a personal shrine? Is it important or precious you?
If you're comfortable doing so, please post a picture if you like!
I love looking at shrines.
Best,
Laura
Keivn
Re: Shrine?
Yes. I love shrines. Mine doesn't really follow Tibetan convention though. However my cats also had a relationship with it so that's good.Ngawang Drolma wrote:Do you maintain a personal shrine? Is it important or precious you?
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Zen Master Seung Sahn said, “That’s simple. Atomic bombs come from the mind that likes this and doesn’t like that.”
"Even if you practice only for an hour a day with faith and inspiration, good qualities will steadily increase. Regular practice makes it easy to transform your mind. From seeing only relative truth, you will eventually reach a profound certainty in the meaning of absolute truth."
Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
"Only you can make your mind beautiful."
HH Chetsang Rinpoche
Zen Master Seung Sahn said, “That’s simple. Atomic bombs come from the mind that likes this and doesn’t like that.”
"Even if you practice only for an hour a day with faith and inspiration, good qualities will steadily increase. Regular practice makes it easy to transform your mind. From seeing only relative truth, you will eventually reach a profound certainty in the meaning of absolute truth."
Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
"Only you can make your mind beautiful."
HH Chetsang Rinpoche
Re: Shrine?
Oddly I've always maintained one ever since I was small. Mine does not follow Tibetan convention either.
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I make offerings, burn incense, light candles and meditate in front of here.
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I keep a spartan shrine. Wish I had a camera to show you.
There's a nice buddha, some Dharma books and a stand-in for a stupa on the top shelf.
Down below are 3 candles, an incense burner (tower type, polished sandstone) a water offering bowl, and some stones. Once is a piece of rounded jadelike material, and on it sits a small piece of fluorite I bought at a gem show. Surrounding them is a semicircle of little bits of agate I have found over the years.
Strangely, when the center candle is behind the fluorite (a transparent green stone) an image of a seated Buddha can be seen in the refracted light.
There is a problem. I'm told a Buddha statue should not be placed low in the room, so it sits at about eye height for a short person. When seated on the floor before the shrine, that puts the statue at a neck-cracking height. Meanwhile I'm told the right place to look while meditating is on the floor about three feet in front of you, so I can't see the Buddha, the candles or anything but some carpet and cabinet doors.
There's a nice buddha, some Dharma books and a stand-in for a stupa on the top shelf.
Down below are 3 candles, an incense burner (tower type, polished sandstone) a water offering bowl, and some stones. Once is a piece of rounded jadelike material, and on it sits a small piece of fluorite I bought at a gem show. Surrounding them is a semicircle of little bits of agate I have found over the years.
Strangely, when the center candle is behind the fluorite (a transparent green stone) an image of a seated Buddha can be seen in the refracted light.
There is a problem. I'm told a Buddha statue should not be placed low in the room, so it sits at about eye height for a short person. When seated on the floor before the shrine, that puts the statue at a neck-cracking height. Meanwhile I'm told the right place to look while meditating is on the floor about three feet in front of you, so I can't see the Buddha, the candles or anything but some carpet and cabinet doors.
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Re: Shrine?
This is a grainy pic of my work in progress:
N.B. There are 2 Vajrapanis on there as somehow I managed to buy 2, but as they look a little different I kept them both.
N.B. There are 2 Vajrapanis on there as somehow I managed to buy 2, but as they look a little different I kept them both.
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