your home altar/shrine

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DreBay
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This is my home altar, if anyone have som suggestions on what more i can do with it, i'll be happy to know :)
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This is my families shrine for my Brother Stephen

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What do you put on your Shrines?

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As a general question, I have made my shrine space, and I have it already designed and dedicated with items for contemplation on a high shelf.

I have electric candles, Buddha Rupa, several jewels with a golden colored jewel, a red/rose colored jewel, and a blue colored gem before the Buddha to represent the tiratana. I have a wheel to represent dhamma. I have an agate offering box where I place food offerings to the Buddha so when I recite that the Buddha's compassion is greater than the ocean I have it there to remind me. Then there is a conch to represent the request the Buddha to teach Dhamma. I have Mala to guide me with chantings. I have a water bottle to offer medicinal water to the Buddha, a goblet to offer drinking water. I have oil infusion sticks in lieu of incense, and I intend to add a vase of silken flowers to offer to the buddha. There is also a peacock feather and a singing bowl, a bell and a dorje given to me by my mother and my father.

What are things you have put on your shrine, and why did you put them there?

How do you properly dedicate them or bless them to use them properly?
I already use them for daily devotional offerings and prostrations, but I fear I may be using them improperly. I desire to be corrected so that it may be in line with Dhamma. :anjali:
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Re: your home altar/shrine

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Hi all,

Could you tell me how do I post a picture here? I want to post a home-altar picture (from my dhamma friend).

Regards,

Thomas
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thomaslaw wrote:Hi all,

Could you tell me how do I post a picture here? I want to post a home-altar picture (from my dhamma friend).

Regards,

Thomas
Under the text edit window and below the preview and submit buttons, there are two tabs inc. options and attachments. Click on attachments and press add files. From there it should be straight forward. Please try and only post photos of 500 x 500 pixels. Any larger and they will be too large.
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PS. The gap -- on the first attachment -- is where I plan to place a picture of myself taken at Wat Doi Suthep, Chiang Mai (see the following post).

Thank you everyone for sharing their pictures; there are some real gems. I hope these alters encourage you to remain diligent and keep in mind the real possibility that what needs to be done - can be done.

Metta!

James. :anjali:
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Here is a visual to go with the daily recollections. For those who might not be aware, you can download these and other chants from the Wat Pah Nanachat website http://www.watpahnanachat.org/mp3playWPNAudio.php
Here is a visual to go with the daily recollections. For those who might not be aware, you can download these and other chants from the Wat Pah Nanachat website http://www.watpahnanachat.org/mp3playWPNAudio.php
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The red Buddha rupa was a gift from my aunty, the golden rupa was a gift from my Sri Lankan Kalyāṇa-mittatā when we met in Thailand last year, the far left and far right rupas were gifts from my twin nieces, the rupa second the right was from my mum, and the black rupa was a gift to myself! Also included are the Majjhima Nikaya, the Namaste gift from my mum, and an essential oil burner regularly filled with tangerine :)
The red Buddha rupa was a gift from my aunty, the golden rupa was a gift from my Sri Lankan Kalyāṇa-mittatā when we met in Thailand last year, the far left and far right rupas were gifts from my twin nieces, the rupa second the right was from my mum, and the black rupa was a gift to myself! Also included are the Majjhima Nikaya, the Namaste gift from my mum, and an essential oil burner regularly filled with tangerine :)
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FutureBhikkhu wrote:PS. The gap -- on the first attachment -- is where I plan to place a picture of myself taken at Wat Doi Suthep, Chiang Mai (see the following post).
I hope nobody finds this offensive - it's not my intention!
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(I was staying at the retreat centre whilst here - hence why I was in white).
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Thanks, Ben, for your reply to my question.

Thanks, FutureBhukkhu, for posting the pictures. I really like the words shown on the pictures: I am of nature to ... [dukkha] ... It reminds me that I have to see directly the nature of dukkha is not mine, I am not this, this is not my self, because of the nature of anicca.

Regards,

Thomas
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thomaslaw wrote:Thanks, Ben, for your reply to my question.

Thanks, FutureBhukkhu, for posting the pictures. I really like the words shown on the pictures: I am of nature to ... [dukkha] ... It reminds me that I have to see directly the nature of dukkha is not mine, I am not this, this is not my self, because of the nature of anicca.

Regards,

Thomas
My pleasure, Thomas.
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Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725

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thomaslaw wrote:Thanks, FutureBhukkhu, for posting the pictures. I really like the words shown on the pictures: I am of nature to ... [dukkha] ... It reminds me that I have to see directly the nature of dukkha is not mine, I am not this, this is not my self, because of the nature of anicca.

Regards,

Thomas

Well spoken, my friend!
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Didn't realize how boring my altars are until I looked at these again. Makes me want to spruce mine up a bit. This is what I have now.
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sattva wrote:Didn't realize how boring my altars are until I looked at these again. Makes me want to spruce mine up a bit. This is what I have now.
My friend Sattva, whether altars are highly decorated and fanciful, or stripped back and simple, keep the primary intention in mind of what the meaning/meanings behind these physical forms represent. ;)
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Re: your home altar/shrine

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This thread has been a great inspiration. Just wanted to share this pic of my shrine at home:
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soothing to see..... :meditate:
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Small shrine I have on my wall. I have another larger statute but it doesn't have an altar yet.
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