Are there any meditation zen garden type areas in SL?

Please help a newbie I'm here to unwind!!

Several, try Angel Dorei, but a search for meditation should throw up plenty.

yes - there are several. My favorite is the mountain top at the Sl Botanical Gardens.

Run a search in Places for zen or buddhist or temple or something similar and several should pop up. There are several very good buddhist temples that are worth exploring. Also, there's a nice meditation place just north of Ahern on the mainland continent. I can't remember the name off the top of my head, but it's really quiet and has several meditation poses.

Thanks I will do that.

Chi (126, 125, 57)

But I go there for the surfing.

I'm trying (and possibly failing) to make a Japanese shrine/garden. Just started out.

Any help gratefully received!

Does anyone know where I can get something to blot out the horrors on the horizon, need textures to make a high screen. I'd prefer not to take this build in the air to avoid the horrors around - decent alpha cherry tree backgrounds anyone? Want to make this as pretty and graceful as I can.

Zen Gardens in Achemon. Beautiful...

Talk to Lucrezia Lamont - her Japanese builds are beautiful.

If I was in world right now I could give you a whole list of places. One right off the top of my head is Supportforhealing.

You'll find shrines, mountain tops, gardens, temples, labyrinths, underwater gardens, caves, etc. there. It's a wonderful place to relax and usually the music is very sedative.

I second Support For Healing. It might seem odd, but I've walked the labyrinth in SL when I needed a bit of calm. Odd to speak of spirituality in a computer game, but yes, it helped tremendously.

Bodhi
Island is dedicated to buddhism.

Midnight Reflections.

I have one open to the public on Commonwealth 3...with daily group meditation (generally at 8amSLT) and group tai chi...IM me in world for more info...or join "Global Meditation Group"

I'll second dat. I used to go both there and DharmaEcho Garden in neighboring Digiuda, til the latter closed.

Thanks for all the suggestions

Bhodi

I think the spelling is correct.

Isn't there one at Silk Waters?

Aww, thanks, Trout! *headbonk*

Obscuring unwanted builds/horizon, I have found, is best done with foliage. Since you are making a Japanese garden, I suggest the huge 30 prim (or so) white and pink cherry trees from Heart. The Straylight Japanese maples and sakura trees are stunning, fewer prims, but low to the ground... but can also aid in obscuring if used correctly.

If you have an unwanted horizon, I'd suggest foregoing a picture perfect Japanese garden with open spaces and instead opt for something a little busier or denser with trees, pond, stone lanterns etc. Keep people focused on the immediate area.

Feel free to drop by my neko shinto shrine and neko boarding house (see my Profile Picks or wander around Necros sim).

OH! And for smaller Japanese maple trees, I found an amazing creator. I'm not in world this second, but I have the small green maple trees spread about on my shinto shrine area -- just right click and see the creator... highly recommended!

And finally, if you're specifically creating a shinto shrine, you might want to reflect key aspects that make a shrine a shrine. Some great info here: http://www.onmarkproductions.com/html/shrine-guide-2.shtml

Have fun!!!

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As for relaxing places, I like Silk Waters, although it's a bit of a ghost town, it's still gorgeous and peaceful. Very relaxing to wander around and explore.

Thanks hon - visits to Heart and Straylight already made The issue I have is blotting out the nice adfarmers in mid air - I'm using the lovely screen Ishtara Rothschild made once when we were neighbours, bless her heart, and shared with me. I put the textures on 20x20 cut in half, just treetops, to build upwards. As ever she has saved the day but it's not exactly the kind of view which encourages Sakura viewing

I am not going for all authentic Shinto, just trying to get a more ... ack, I have no idea how to describe it. I get a vision in my mind and the only way it gets described is by building

When I get home I'll come look at the links in this thread, thanks all of you.

Inspire Space thing is nice, too. Floating through space, soothing sound.. nice

I understand, Cherry. My tea house land on Black Art is like that -- a vision I couldn't describe, not authentically Japanese, but pretty nonetheless. Land that recently I've had to surround in 20' high bamboo walls for the ugliness around.

Floating junk in the sky? Ugh. Other than VERY high perimiter prims, I've no idea what you could do. Sorry.

As for the rest, I'd really love to see what you have done. I'll look up your Picks in profile but if your land isn't there, could you post a landmark? It sounds fabulous!

We have meditation areas and tai chi in our forest next to a beautiful waterfall....very peaceful and calming.

Akasuchi and Cherry, IM me in world - I have a lovely garden with the Buddha and Quan Yin and a nice little Tea House You both would be welcome to visit
Peace

A

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