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Meditation outside?

chenjiechenjie
edited April 2012 in Meditation
Are there any advantages or disadvantages to meditating outside?

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  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    Yes.
    The weather.
    isolation or lack of it.
    Disturbance
    distractions.
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    (Moved to the meditation forum).
  • slowmichaelslowmichael Explorer
    I personally love to meditate outside, it feels better more natural.

    When it is cold or raining i meditate in a room no sound, no wind, nothing. Feels disconnected from all things.
  • DakiniDakini Veteran
    I like to meditate in a quiet place with trees around, so I can hear the wind rustling through the trees. I think environments like this are very conducive to meditation.
  • ZeroZero Veteran
    There's a strong connection to nature - it can be very refreshing... you may look mad, bugs will think you've died and will start eating you...

    its also good developing meditation in different settings - though the setting may be different, the nature of the meditation is the same - in this way, it is possible to dissolve the difference between out and in, nature and not nature, meditate or not meditate...
  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    The type of meditation I do you open to everything. So distractions are part of the meditation. It can make the mind sharpened in it's insight because of the energy added. I am a bit depressive and low energy so I do this at every opportunity; today it's cold and has rained.
  • enkoenko Explorer
    nothing like meditating in a rainforest or by the ocean
  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    Meditate everywhere. There are ways to meditate in pretty much every situation you can think of. I liked something I read about walking meditation. It said that it can be important because for example imagine a walk on the beach, your mindset would be probably calm and happy, the imagine a walk to the dentist for a root-canal drilling, that mindset will be very different. If you can practice walking meditation, you can be mindful in a walk anywhere :p

    Like Jeffrey said, I like to use distractions as tools, ways to improve. That is when I am in a period of meditating which I have only just returned to. For example someone was going crazy on an anglegrinder somewhere close to me, but soon enough I could not hear it, but when I lost focus I could.

    Here is a link you may want to look at. http://www.buddhanet.net/insight.htm
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