where do you meditate?

Hi

I was wondering where you guys and gals meditate?

It is spring now in the u.k and and it is getting a bit warmer over here. I like to stand outside and train, especially in parks near trees as the energy is really good.

Have any one got any preferences or storys of training outside, (I read that animals will stop and watch people standing.)

Hopefully not being attacked by any animals or the general public!!.

I have had the odd comment but mainly just inquisitive people.

Cheers DC

i usually do it at work......just don't tell my boss.

I'm more of a sitting on my bed kinda guy in the winter. summer i just go out in the back yard and sit.

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everywhere...however I do set aside certain times to be more into it. When I come home from work I sit by the pool, sometimes at night I light candles by the pool (I like the water) and I am installing a fire pit that will add to it.
I also have an alter in my home for doing specific detachments, not that its needed but its good for the atmosphere.
lately I have two very large 100 year old trees in a small wooded area at the back of the property lots of birds squirrels raccoons etc and I have started going there

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I like private places. So inside most of the time but I'm about to buy my first house and I'm looking forward to doing some in the back yard.

I've been watched by cats. Not really surprising. One time I was doing form outside and I glanced down to see a toad with his head turned to one side looking up at me. He watched for a while and the saw a bug and went and ate it and then came back and watched some more. The next day I ran him over with my car when I was pulling out.

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In the bedroom in an area away from the bed & other things.
I sit on zafu and zabuton - facing a white panel or sometimes the wall.
I consider these times to be more like "sitting" than meditation - but most people call it meditation.
I also "meditate" in the idle times of my day - walking to meetings, waiting at the printer or copier - waiting for elevators, driving to work. To a lesser extent - I "meditate" while interacting with others - doing project work, etc.

"Meditate" for me is trying to be fully present without the incessant chatter of mind - past - future - when I walk - I walk. When I wait, I wait. Etc. Nothing fancy - nothing spiritual or esoteric. Just being.

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Cool points.

My teacher says that standing inside helps to build up the energy, but I do like training outside as the fresh air and sunlight makes it a bit more enjoyable.

I thought for a while Mr Chibeast was going to talk to the toad, cool story. Hope your were not licking that toad!! lol

I have had birds stop and watch me, when I have noticed them in the garden. I think because it is not a ordinary thing for humans to do. My cat does like to sit near me when I am training, so maybe he can sense the energy?

Is there areas where there is more energy? For example, ley lines.

Would standing in these natural focus points increase the training result? And double that if it was also a forest with evergreen trees?

Just a thought
DC

i was once training standing post in a forest when three or four deer stopped to watch for a while.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhh .......... i felt like i was on the set of Bamby!

i find training under the canopy of a thick forrest the most powerful ... trees are strong creatures!

Chris

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i do most of my meditating outside but tantric stuff i tend to do inside (its not just the wildlife that would stop and stare)..........i am luck enough to live in a city and have a relatively private garden........once during a sil lim tao session outside a squirrel stopped between my leggs and ate a blackberry it seemed completely oblivious to my presence........stillness i guess.....................it then went about its business as usual..............

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My dog is confused by my sitting (meditation). She snorts at me, makes little growly noises... "Why on earth are you just sitting there??"

She doesn't mind the Tai Chi and various moving Qigong - I move slow enough not to be scary.

My parrot mutters unintelligible things when I do Tai Chi (and ignores me when I do Qigong) - he's probably coaching my style.

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- in my living room, on the carpet facing my fishtank (I have 1 shubunken, 1 pleco, and a couple danyos in it).


I put on my Tibetan monks throat-chanting CD, listen to the cymbals, horns and gutturals, and try to follow the sound like a fireball going from the root to the throat and out.

(Yeah I'm fruity - my last 2 GF's were new-age chicks ;] ).

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where i'm alone

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I am fortunate enough to live in an area where I can just walk about any place that I'd ever want to meditate in, my favorite place although, is at the end of this dock where I can hear the waterfall and I can hear the water splash up on the side of the dock, very soothing and peaceful area, and, if not their, I do it on my roof.

so i go into the park but teenagers who made a campfire and partied on the upper part of it yesterday seem to have moved down where i often go and watch the stars and light a joint.. anyways the timbers still glowing and of course lots of trash and beer bottles lying around, and some of them still on the other side of the park so i decide to do the little chi gung i wanted to do (got no weed, and i wasn't gonna ask those park-defilers.. ) back home in the garden.. so i hear some girls walking around and stop turning my imaginary millstones and move a little and i hear a little bell, guess must have been my neighbours cat watching. so i had to think of you people

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