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Homemade Buddha scenes & altars
Dhammika
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One of the members of our sitting group showed up one day with 7 of these polyurethane garden Buddhas he had scarfed up from a home supply shop in the Bible Belt. He wanted to give them suitable homes.
I don't have my own - some day!
I use an iPad as a cybershrine. Just use a looping slideshow to change the focus ...
https://cundi.weebly.com/yidam.html
Not the best camera but hey.
This Buddha I inherited when a friend passed on.
They're beautiful, @David.
Here is the Buddha Nature 'natural shrine' I pictured two days ago
Did I go wrong again ...
You certainly did not go wrong. Beautiful natural shrine. ???
Coooooooooool
From left to right: Fearlessness, Wisdom, Bodhicitta, Moral Discipline
My Buddha shrine is currently dismantled, as I'm moving house soon. Will keep you all apprised of its new 'construction' as and when. (I also plan on having an outside 'shrine' in my new garden....!)
Looking forward to seeing those @federica and best wishes for the upcoming move. I would also love to have an outside shrine in a garden one day.
Great thread @Dhammika
Actually, here is the main Buddhistic meditation focus in my study.
My bedroom
My bedside table
What is the white rectangular thing on the right? (like I need to give its position! )
My bedside table> @federica said:
Selenite. I often hold it while meditating.
Homemade altar I made at the woodshop.
@dhammachick, I wondered what that hexagonal wooden piece is - the one in your bedroom? Maybe an incense burner?
Nice work, @seeker242.
I think it's a sandalwood box containing incense sticks... I used to have something similar, but I can't be sure it's the same thing.
That's an awesome bit of carving on the front there, @seeker242 ! Beautiful! Could I order one please - ?!
Yep. @Federica is right. It's my incense burner
Wot no room for a personal me/mine shrine?
http://www.oxherding.com/my_weblog/2018/01/shrines.html
meanwhile I beheaded a garden Buddha
oops ...
On my fireplace at home...
I think in the vinaya it says if you behead a Buddha statue and happen to be a lobster, then in the next life you will have very small pincers.
I have overposted the picture of my altar already, but here it goes again...
Here is mine...my desk is very messy. And nowhere near as refined as everyone else's
Here is mine:
It looks beautiful! Are those real flowers?
@1448 no they are plastic flowers. Sometimes real flowers added for a time but I'm not sure what time of year for this photo. It's a little different right now but I like this one for the candles. It was actually a power outage from a storm when I took the photo for above and hence the candles.
Here's how it looks now:
I guess I moved out the flowers at some point. The baseball is an artifact of my childhood I found. It is a baseball that my dog chewed up when I was 10 years old. My mother saved it.
Pah!
Everyones expression/life/space is an expression of their nature.
I myself am a shrine
... however that is just the Buddha Nature part, which is a bit part 
As we refine our Boing Being, we bounce with the morning star or become in accord with our sacred space ...
So here is my conventional shrine, all the Buddha statues have walked ...
We just moved so my shrine got changed.
they are all beautifull.peace in , peace out to our e-shang-ha:how wonderfull.
This is where I meditate at lunchtime every day. Not pretty, but my eyes are closed so I don't think it matters.
Eh ma ho!
How wonderful indeed.
Peoples shrines are an expression of their fishy sole/soul.
I love these glimpses into peoples reverence ...
Here is one I did earlier ...
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/BuddhistYAP
lobster,that is very cool.old and new.right on.
Thanks @paulyso
The most profound shrine usage is empty or whatever form is before us as in @ScottPen ‘shrine’
... however most of us respond to a sanctified or sacred space construct. With vajrayana and concentration, we can project a Pureland, shrine or Buddha Temple.
Here for your consideration are two portable shrines ...
about object of attention,i hear you i.e.,a flower,which you presented in this thread. take a moment to see--really see-zen!--feel and be.the source as zen would say the suchness is rewarding when we --you know a tune a tone--our being. you are singing to the choir in me.and back to my crudeness--that's good shit!!...lol
about the video,how beautiful.my metephor or analogy,traditional green beans,never out of style as an option.