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Many of Sri Chinmoy's students read his poems and aphorisms as part of their meditation practice. Much of the time, people turn to his three major collections of aphorisms - Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, and Seventy-Seven Thousand Service Treees - but Sri Chinmoy also wrote many smaller collections ...

I thought I'd share with you something I picked up yesterday on the flute. I recorded it with GarageBand, which by default gives you a metronome to accompany you. At first I thought it was a good idea, as my sense of rhythm is a bit all over the place, ...

In Sri Chinmoy's philosophy, concentration is an important prerequisite to meditation: Concentration is the Arrow. Meditation is the Bow. When you concentrate, you focus all your energies upon the chosen phenomenon in order to unveil its mysteries. When you meditate, you rise into a higher consciousness. Concentration wants to penetrate into the object it ...

Many of Sri Chinmoy's students read his poems and aphorisms as part of their meditation practice. Much of the time, people turn to his three major collections of aphorisms - Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, and Seventy-Seven Thousand Service Treees - but Sri Chinmoy also wrote many smaller collections ...

In Sri Chinmoy's philosophy, concentration is an important prerequisite to meditation: Concentration is the Arrow. Meditation is the Bow. When you concentrate, you focus all your energies upon the chosen phenomenon in order to unveil its mysteries. When you meditate, you rise into a higher consciousness. Concentration wants to penetrate into the object it ...

Many of Sri Chinmoy's students read his poems and aphorisms as part of their meditation practice. Much of the time, people turn to his three major collections of aphorisms - Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, Twenty-Seven Thousand Aspiration-Plants, and Seventy-Seven Thousand Service Treees - but Sri Chinmoy also wrote many smaller collections ...

I have just returned from three weeks in Dominican Republic, a gathering of students of Sri Chinmoy from all over the world. Every year, Sri Chinmoy would leave snow-bound New York and go somewhere where his constant creative output and tireless work for peace would not be impaired by the ...

In his lifetime, my teacher engaged in so many fields of endeavour - spirituality, art, poetry, peace activism, composing songs, theatre, running, lecturing, cycling, instrumental performances, tennis, weightlifting - that it is often a challenging task explaining to anyone unfamiliar with my teacher's work exactly who Sri Chinmoy was and ...

In his lifetime, my teacher engaged in so many fields of endeavour - spirituality, art, poetry, peace activism, composing songs, theatre, running, lecturing, cycling, instrumental performances, tennis, weightlifting - that it is often a challenging task explaining to anyone unfamiliar with my teacher's work exactly who Sri Chinmoy was and ...

I always enjoy hearing the myriad ways in which people embark upon the journey of self-discovery. When I was beginning to meditate, I eagerly devoured and personal accounts by people who meditated I came across, ehether it be in book form, video form or first-hand. I remember seeing this ...

Right now I am in much warmer climes than I am used to for this time of year (namely, the Carribbean), here with all my friends from the Sri Chinmoy Centre. Just as when we meet in New York, there are plenty of meditation functions which mix silent meditation together ...

I always enjoy hearing the myriad ways in which people embark upon the journey of self-discovery. When I was beginning to meditate, I eagerly devoured and personal accounts by people who meditated I came across, ehether it be in book form, video form or first-hand. I remember seeing this ...

I always enjoy hearing the myriad ways in which people embark upon the journey of self-discovery. When I was beginning to meditate, I eagerly devoured and personal accounts by people who meditated I came across, ehether it be in book form, video form or first-hand. I remember seeing this ...

I mentioned in a previous blog post my wish to take the reader on a guided tour of Aspiration-Ground in New York, the place where I consider to be my spiritual home. It is the place where my meditation Teacher, Sri Chinmoy, spent much of the last 25 years of ...

I mentioned in a previous blog post my wish to take the reader on a guided tour of Aspiration-Ground in New York, the place where I consider to be my spiritual home. It is the place where my meditation Teacher, Sri Chinmoy, spent much of the last 25 years of ...

I mentioned in a previous blog post my wish to take the reader on a guided tour of Aspiration-Ground in New York, the place where I consider to be my spiritual home. It is the place where my meditation Teacher, Sri Chinmoy, spent much of the last 25 years of ...

When in New York to visit my teacher Sri Chinmoy, I often have occasion to stop by my friend Anugata's house which is just up the hill from Aspiration-Ground, not least because of the free internet connection that can be obtained if you lean your computer a certain way against ...

On the morning of 14th April 1950, a large comet slowly moved across the south Indian sky. My spiritual Master Sri Chinmoy, then a young man of nineteen, was captaining one of the two soccer teams that were playing that day in the spiritual community where he spent his adolescence ...

When in New York to visit my teacher Sri Chinmoy, I often have occasion to stop by my friend Anugata's house which is just up the hill from Aspiration-Ground, not least because of the free internet connection that can be obtained if you lean your computer a certain way against ...

When in New York to visit my teacher Sri Chinmoy, I often have occasion to stop by my friend Anugata's house which is just up the hill from Aspiration-Ground, not least because of the free internet connection that can be obtained if you lean your computer a certain way against ...