People often inquire, “What is the right place to meditate?” It is a very significant question. If we find a particular place where we feel good and it offers a good ambience, then that’s the place. We should meditate daily in that particular place. By our daily meditation the place acquires a certain character, an energy-field, which becomes conducive to meditation. The place then welcomes you the moment you return there to meditate.

What is meditation all about?

Our whole existence is about life. Trees and earth and sky are all life. When we meditate at a certain place, the place becomes more alive by our regular meditation. It contains our energy - the energy of meditation - and inherits the vibrations from our calmness and silence. And each time we meditate there, the preserved energy becomes available to us.

“Say Sorry to the door”

It happened once that a man came to see a Zen master. The man was not very sensitive. When he entered the meditation room of the master, he closed the door loudly with a bang. The Zen master told the man,“First go back to the door and ask for forgiveness. You have been very insensitive with the door.” The man understood the point and went back to the door to ask for forgiveness.
The Zen master gave him a very important lesson of meditation: Treat everything with sensitivity - even those objects which do not look alive. There is life everywhere. Before you enter into the field of meditation, become alert and aware. Bring the quality of sensitivity with you. Meditation is going to make you more sensitive and intuitive.

How meditation benefits you

You will become more alive - abundant with a sense of life you never knew before. You will feel friendly towards all. There will be no hostility. You will carry that aura of friendliness and calm that meditation brings everywhere with you. This will touch others too, but most importantly, it will enhance the place where you meditate.
The temples too breathe with such life. Just by bowing your head mechanically at a place of worship, you cannot make it into a temple. Only if someone meditates at some place sincerely, does that place become a real temple.
Gautama the Buddha meditated under a Bodhi tree and one day there was the advent of enlightenment. The blessed Bodhi tree was a witness to this ultimate explosion and imbibed the vibrations. The tree remains alive even today. It has become a unique temple and a symbol of inspiration to thousands of seekers. Such is the magic of meditation.